Dear You,
You spent so long waiting—216Please respect copyright.PENANAxUEdMEywKO
for validation,216Please respect copyright.PENANApU9ZoFMo4v
for permission,216Please respect copyright.PENANAQxdnLwLnWr
for someone to say, "Yes, you're allowed to want more."
But no one came.
So one day, you looked around at all the places you shrank yourself to fit216Please respect copyright.PENANAZmxGelCNi7
and realized:216Please respect copyright.PENANAbeUNNMS93t
You don't need permission to grow.
You bloomed anyway—quietly, rebelliously.216Please respect copyright.PENANAzewTJK2VD5
Not in perfect conditions.216Please respect copyright.PENANAr0ySLFinHQ
Not with the support you deserved.216Please respect copyright.PENANAG0QPuuzvIi
But still, you bloomed.
You stopped asking people to love the real you216Please respect copyright.PENANAnPRZXT1Uiv
before you decided to love her first.216Please respect copyright.PENANA7UzSUzPR3H
You let go of the need to be understood216Please respect copyright.PENANAAlSydICaGH
and replaced it with the courage to be free.
This is not the end of your becoming—216Please respect copyright.PENANAR2uykJID93
it's the part where the sun finds you,216Please respect copyright.PENANAXDMFzUn2Fv
and you no longer hide from its warmth.
Grow wild, grow soft, grow true.216Please respect copyright.PENANA4n1Hcfc5BV
The garden was always within you.
With tenderness,216Please respect copyright.PENANAljW001nKQP
—The Bloom You Became
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