The Forest Will Keep Watch

You are safe here... fully, completely safe. This forest is not just trees and fire... it is a place where old weight is allowed to leave you. Whatever you have been carrying... you can set it down now... just for tonight. Somewhere inside you... there is a small, quiet part of you that remembers how to simply be... before all the noise. That part of you is here too... and it is allowed to rest. There are truths in you... soft ones... ones you don't always see in the daylight. Tonight, in the dark, they don't ask to be fixed... only to be felt... just for a moment... and then let go. Breathe them out... slowly... like smoke rising from the fire. You don't have to hold anything together right now. You are held... by the trees... by the warmth... by the quiet. Let the old energy drift upward... and away... into the night sky. What's left is only you... soft, and whole, and safe. Sleep now... the forest will keep watch... until morning.