I used to lean on anything
That felt like it could stay.
Built my peace in other hands,
Watched it slip away.
I called it love, I called it fate,
I called it what I needed.
But every time I gave myself,
I felt a little weaker.
I was searching for a place
That I could finally land,
Never realized I was
Standing where I stand.
Now I got my own two feet to stand on,
Don’t need nobody else to hold me up.
I found a way to be my own safe place,
When everything around me wasn’t enough.
And I don’t fall the way I used to,
I don’t break the way I did.
I trust the ground beneath me now—
I finally know what strength is.
I used to chase a feeling
Like it lived in someone else.
Like happiness was something
I could never build myself.
But I’ve been sitting in the silence,
Learning how to breathe.
And there’s a kind of peace
That only comes from me.
No more reaching for a hand
That disappears in time,
I became the steady place
I was trying to find.
Now I got my own two feet to stand on,
Don’t need nobody else to hold me up.
I found a way to be my own safe place,
When everything around me wasn’t enough.
And I don’t fall the way I used to,
I don’t break the way I did.
I trust the ground beneath me now—
I finally know what strength is.
It was never about being alone,
It was learning I’d be okay.
Even if everything I loved
Somehow walked away.
And I still feel, and I still hurt,
But I don’t disappear—
I finally found something
That was always here.
Now I got my own two feet to stand on,
And they don’t shake the way they used to.
I don’t need saving, I just needed
To believe I could move through.
And if love comes, I won’t lose me,
I won’t bend just to fit.
I trust the ground beneath me now—
I finally know what strength is.
CharlotteElisa
