@lenakarla: the return to self is one of the most painfully beautiful journeys we can take in this life. sometimes, finding ourselves means grieving the people we became just to survive. it means facing the parts of our past we tried to forget, shedding what no longer belongs to us, and learning to recognize ourselves beneath it all. and perhaps the most beautiful part is realizing we were never truly lost. only buried beneath the weight of everything life asked us to be. #poetry #poem #poetrylover #poetrystatus #hopecore