To whoever it may concern...
I have grown.
Through storms that left me shattered, through silences that screamed louder than words,
I have endured.
I've known what it means to trust and be broken by the very hands I reached for.
But I learned
Love doesn't begin with someone else. It starts with the person in the mirror.
It starts with me.
So if I seem distant now, guarded, slow to let anyone in,
know this:
I didn't build these walls out of pride.
I built them out of survival.
I finally understand the worth of a heart that still beats after breaking.
And I no longer hand it over to just anyone.
Because now,
I've got a Queen's heart,
and a Queen knows what it costs to rise from the ashes.