I survived you!!

You tried to bury me

but you weren’t deep enough

You tried to silence me

but my lungs learned thunder

You tried to break me

but I was built out of stubborn stars

I walked through fire

with blistered feet

and still carved my name

into the sky

I am not your damage.

I am not your secret.

I am not the quiet you built

with your cruelty

I am the proof that you failed.

Every scar is a sentence

you didn’t get to finish writing

Every breath I take

is a door you can’t lock

I learned how to stitch myself together

with shaking hands

and rebel light

I learned how to become

my own safe place

my own protector

my own damn hero

You gave me hell

but you did not give me permission

to stay there

Now I bite back at the dark

Now I dance on trauma’s throat

Now I speak the words

that once would have killed me

I survived you.

And that is your greatest failure.

My body is no longer

your battleground

It is a temple

built on refusal

and revolution

I am not a victim.

I am an ending

to your cycle

I am a beginning

you don’t get to touch

Say my name now

and know

it belongs

only

to me.