Hey Girl, Don’t Let Them Rewrite Your Heart

Hey, girl,
It is so easy for the world to put you in a box,
To reduce your soul to a body,
Your worth to their opinions,
And your existence to whatever their eyes choose to see

They call it judgement, they call it truth,
Never knowing how much of a person they undo
For it takes only a moment to make someone feel small
But the heart that breaks in silence remembers it all

And perhaps they never noticed,
The little girl who grew quieter with time,
The laughter that faded between the lines,
The softness that once came so naturally,
Now questioning whether it was safe to be kind

You were once the girl who found flowers in stone,
Who made the lost feel seen, the lonely feel home
But somewhere between the wounds and the blame,
You began to fear becoming yourself again

Oh, my girl, I know you want to build walls,
To become untouchable, to stop feeling it all
But don’t let the hands that hurt you decide
That the garden within you must  die

Learn to close doors without turning to stone,
To protect your heart without making it cold
Not everyone deserves the tenderness you give,
But don’t punish your own soul for the way others live

For the cruelest thing isn’t that they broke your heart,
It’s that you might let them change the beautiful parts
The kindness, the warmth, the light in your eyes,
The girl who still saw stars in another’s sky

So, hey, girl, let them misunderstand your soul and make the comments
But don’t let their narrow worlds make your beautiful heart small
You can grow wiser without forgetting how to care,
And still be the girl who once found goodness everywhere

You have spent so long gathering pieces of others,
Please don’t abandon the little girl within
She was never the reason the world became cruel
And she doesn’t deserve to become cruel to survive it