Where the Noise Could Not Follow | Inner Authority

...I gave my quiet to the noise Held every room together Smiled while carrying the weight Of storms that weren't my weather I answered every voice that called Believing I was needed But love that lives on borrowed breath Leaves the giver depleted Something in me finally stood And refused to kneel again I answer only to the mountain now To the quiet in my bones No longer leaking light to rooms That never felt like home I stand where my own voice returns Clear across the sky I was always enough I was never meant to try The fixer, the pleaser The easy one to keep The silent bridge for others While my own heart learned to sleep But the mountain does not bow To the echoes in the valley It stands in patient gravity Unafraid of standing alone Spoken: Peace was never something I had to give away. I answer only to the mountain now To the truth inside my chest The ones who meet me here in light Are the ones who truly see me best No performance left to hold No approval left to chase Just the quiet sovereign fire Of finally claiming space...