winter

the one who never felt

she belonged

in this strange world,

fears independence.

she asks herself:

what if

my truest self

is too different?

a new layer is revealed.

she realizes,

she is afraid of being

n o t h i n g .

specifically

the type of nothing

that appears empty

and boring to most

but actually

holds the deepest potency

of truth and wisdom.

the same wisdom

that lives in the soil

beneath our feet.

and the thing is

she isn’t afraid

of how that feels in her bones,

in fact she loves it.

but she is afraid that no one will love her

if her truest self,

unfiltered and awakened,

embodies this nothing

that almost no one notices,

but that EVERYONE is birthed from.