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You don't have to be so strong all the time.
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That's all I ever needed to hear.
That, for once, I too could be...
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Weak?
No.
Weak is not the word.
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This brain fog...
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I could be...vulnerable?
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Perhaps.
If I had a safe place I yearned for, then I would've given in and been what I never had the chance to be.
Not weak.
Not vulnerable.
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I'd be me.
And there, and then...
It would be...enough?
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Enough is not the word.
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Let me rephrase this.
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And then, there...
It would be right, as it is, as I am.
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But I never heard those words before.
"You don't have to be so strong all the time."
That lack of one simple yet efficient sentence was an imaginary chain around my body.
Soon it turned into a cage.
And I had no clue where the key could possibly be found.
To be quite frank...
I never looked for one.
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I remained strong.
Always.
No tears.
No emotions.
Just this.
Whatever this is.
I cannot name it.
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Had I heard the words...
I'd find a way out.
I'd allow myself to be just me, and that would be enough.
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But I never got to hear those words.
And so I remained...
Strong.
So painfully strong.
And that's my biggest weakness.
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My strength will be the end of me...
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I. L.
Awesome!! 
