Let your thoughts pass

Like clouds in the sky

Let the day

Turn into night

Sometimes it rains 

And you won't know why 

Sometimes it feels like

Your barely getting by 

But storms always pass eventually

And you will see the sun rise 

Life won't always be sunshine and rainbows

But sometimes there's beauty 

In not knowing how the day goes

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Chapter One — Foundation of Fear

Mark entered my life before I could form a memory. I was three months old when he became a permanent fixture in the house, and my older sister, Casie, was four. I have no recollection of a world before him. There is no clean dividing line between safety and danger in my early memory, because danger came first. Fear was not something that happened to me. It was s...

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Stillness Knows

Stillness is not empty.
It is the space where my body exhales
before my mind explains.

Calm is not the absence of movement.
It is the moment I stop forcing
what was never meant to rush.

My nervous system speaks quietly.
Not in panic.
Not in urgency.
But in signals I used to ignore
because I was taught to push through.

Now I listen.
To the slowing of my breath.
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