Realizations

I thought I was losing myself.

Ironically, I only needed to find a certain part

When I began losing the people who were my foundation.

I never really lost myself,

Or them.

And in full retrospect, they weren’t my foundation,

But they truly helped me build it.

I just had to figure out how to build on my own

Without their constant instruction along the way.

I realized, for so long, I wasn’t building for me,

But I was copying them instead.

I finally understood it.

I couldn’t mimic how they were building for themselves

Because I was not them.

They were building a village

To show me my roots.

I am building an empire

To show them my growth.