04/30/2026
How do you say goodbye to someone who was never there?
Not all beginnings are gentle.
Some of us learned to build from the open space parents should have filled. We learned to turn uncertainty into roots,and grow anyway.
I wasn’t given a map,so I learned the shape of my own path.
What felt broken once slowly became something steady,something mine.
There were spaces in my story that felt too quiet for too long, because you weren't there.
But I filled them with my own voice, my own becoming. I built my own family without a blue print.
And that has been enough.
I learned to hold myself with the care I once searched for from you. To grow something soft and strong in the same breath.
And that is a kind of peace I have today.
