I once believed that hands could hold more than air That words could shape something lasting But I have seen how voices fade How silence lingers longer than names I built a dream from open heart Only to watch them slip away I followed footsteps beside my own Only to find the ground was never steady You ask if the wind can bear you forward But the air does not remember You wait for the stars to answer But their light only reaches what is already gone I called out once To the sea, to the sky, to the names I thought were mine The tide replied with absence The sky with indifference The names with nothing at all What is trust If not a tether to something that shifts? What is need If not a voice left unheard? You will learn, as I did That no hands will catch you That no road will rise to meet you That the only weight you carry Is your own Let go Not because it is easy But because nothing will hold you The way you wish it would And still, you walk Not waiting Not reaching Just moving Yearning No answer Nobody I was born alone I will die alone