Dear You Who Waited for Love Like It Was a Promise,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltYHDZKD95
#SilentLonging #HopefulHeart #NeverChosenStillHoping
You grew up with hope in your bones.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmC5ZgDfSXr
Hope that someday, someone would see you—44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggaG4dZHgC
not just glance, but really see you.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQWUBc1F4H
See the parts you tried to hide,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5aEizHiJb
the parts you molded to be easier to love.
You looked at every room and wondered,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYkvaJJqMH
"Will I finally belong here?"44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyvhYQyw9o
You entered every bond with trembling joy,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1D51mY0DY
thinking, maybe this time,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24ppAotfIO
maybe I won't have to try so hard.
But love didn't arrive in the ways you imagined.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVN2uYuivSW
It was always distant,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyV1F49kA34
conditional,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHovgb2qJk
just out of reach.
You changed yourself to fit expectations44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN76FRw2zl
that kept shifting.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlvdwNcUvJ
Smiled through being overlooked.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7QvsqjbKl
Stayed quiet when your heart wanted to scream,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZauZzROi9
"Choose me. Stay. Please stay."
You romanticized scraps of kindness44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgXf1XNklt
and built entire futures out of maybe's.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnieZo1mnL
Because deep down,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPX6lUWXUe
you believed that being loved44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGdfEX1fl6
meant being enough.
But the truth is—44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiniRUbZUTa
you were always enough.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXxm45Sygt
Even when no one clapped.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhJbzZMOdt
Even when you weren't picked.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrR5bWLrUT
Even when your silence echoed louder than your presence.
You were not unlovable.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDT6V2tu7K
You were just waiting for people44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWcRk9bCzt
who couldn't meet you where you needed.
It was never about your worth.44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9gHEqJx8L
Only about their capacity.
And one day—maybe not yet,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstR2lqUCEh
but someday soon—44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyW1TED9oi
you'll stop waiting for the love that never came44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LNM8NF2FI
and realize that you can be the one44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtIiSwQZPE
who finally gives it44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwYa1YxhLy
to yourself.
You'll belong—44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjK92Mlokk
not because someone else lets you in,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpHhwUU8jl
but because you stopped shrinking44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpAsYOCgrs
to fit in places that never knew how to hold you.
You are love,44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqZ6UmNHIN
even when no one says it back.
—From the version of you who no longer waits to be chosen
44Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMY7MPgzQC
