First Light

I spent so long counting shadows,

Trying to measure every scar.

Looking for a hidden answer

In the places where we are.

But the night was never empty,

It was teaching me to see.

Every moment I was searching Was becoming part of me.

Now the silence feels different,

Like a song I understand.

I don't need to know the ending

To believe in where I stand.

Here comes the first light,

Breaking through the blue.

A brand new morning

With a clearer view.

All the roads behind me

Made me who I am.

I was never falling— I was learning how to stand.

Every door I thought was closing

Was revealing something more.

Every wave that tried to take me

Was returning me to shore.

I don't carry every question,

I don't chase every reply.

Some things only become clearer

When you finally stop and try.

There is beauty in becoming,

There is freedom in the change.

I can honor

every version That brought me to this place.

If the sky forgets the darkness,

It still remembers every star.

If the river leaves the mountain,

It still knows where it came from.

I will carry all my chapters,

But I won't live inside the pages.

Every ending was a doorway,

Every silence turned the stages.

Here comes the first light,

Shining through the years.

Washing away the weight Of everything I feared.

All the nights I survived Brought me to this dawn.

I don't need to find myself— I've been here all along.

Here comes the first light,

And I finally know: The heart keeps moving,

The story keeps growing.

The world is still waiting,

The horizon is new.

And everything ahead Is something I can move into.

The night was only a chapter...

The morning was always coming.

I am here.

I am ready.