Still Yours to Return to

You won’t always walk
in alignment
with who you are.

Sometimes
you’ll try too hard.

Say too little.

Stay too long.

And sometimes—
you’ll twist yourself
just to fit
what was never meant for you.

But the core of you
doesn’t change.

Even when the noise of the world
drowns everything else out—
you are still you.

And that still small voice?

It never left.

It didn’t chase you.

It just stayed—
waiting for you to remember.

It’s not about
never straying.

It’s about noticing when you do—
and choosing
not to stay gone.

—Daughter, Unwritten
What is written in you—endures.