Choose gently

What are you carrying today?

Choose the closest feeling. You do not have to explain it yet.

I’m fine, but not really

For the truth you keep swallowing.

For the sentence that still lives in you.

For everything you survived while looking strong.

For the people you had to stop explaining yourself to.

For fear, grief, anxiety, and survival that live beneath the skin.

For the numbers you still want to call and the memories that still visit.

For the help you needed but could not ask for.

For wounds that healed without closure.

For the days life makes you feel like giving up.

For the ones who judged your climb without knowing what you survived.