She knows

Verse 1]

I walk a road that feels open

Like it was meant for my feet

I don’t carry fear in my pockets

I don’t flinch when I breathe

There’s a calm in my nervous system

Like safety was built into me

I didn’t earn it by suffering

I was given it quietly

Some people call it luck

Some call it strength in my bones

I call it love that stood in front of me

Before I ever walked alone

Because you were there

I get to live light

I don’t confuse pain

With earning my life

Because you were there

I trust the ground I’m on

I don’t spend my days surviving

I get to move forward strong

I see the world clearly

But it doesn’t crush my chest

I know how to hold compassion

Without abandoning myself

I don’t feel chased by the past

It doesn’t pull at my name

I get to choose who I become

Without dragging old flames

You took the weight before it reached me

You stood where it stopped

I didn’t have to be hardened

To know how to be solid

Because you were there

I don’t live on defense

I don’t mistake chaos

For being intense

Because you were there

I know peace is real

I don’t fear calm

I know how it feels

I know what you carried

Even if I never felt it

I see your strength

In the way my life opens

You didn’t teach me pain

You taught me possibility

Because you were there

I live unafraid

I don’t owe my life

To debts already paid

Because you were there

I get to choose joy

Not as rebellion

But as my natural voice

I walk free

Not because I forgot

But because you remembered first

Everything you ended

Became my beginning