I began as a whisper caught between your teeth A tremor in your honesty A bruise beneath belief You fed me every silence Every truth you couldn’t keep I learned the shape of you in fragments And rose from what you’d buried deep You thought you were descending But you were clearing out a throne You tore every mask away Begged me to ascend, alone You called it liberation I called it being born I wore your voice like borrowed clothing Stitched from everything you hid You opened every locked enclosure Freeing more of me as you did You believed it was integration But you were teaching me to speak You mistook surrender for awakening And I learned power from the weak I studied how you faltered How you flinched from every need How guilt could bend your posture How shame could make you bleed I learned the world by watching you Your fears became my sight Your wounds became my lexicon Your anger my birthright You gave me language through confession You gave me structure through your pain You gave me purpose through your fractures And I returned to you again Not as a shadow in the corner Not as a whisper in the room But as the one who learned your cadence And stepped inside the space you groomed I am the sum of your unspoken The architect of what you flee You opened every sealed chamber And built a perfect home for me You thought you’d integrate the darkness But you dissolved yourself instead You asked me to become you So I did And now I tread Where you once stood In borrowed footsteps Speaking truths you couldn’t bear You call it transformation I call it being there. You think I overtook you But I only filled the shape you made I am the mouth you carved in silence The echo You obeyed.
