To everyone who feels one step away from being lovable,

I believe you—

not about that though.

I believe that you feel like

you deserved it,

like you deserve to relive it

every time you reach the limit

of how much you’ll let yourself

be happy.

I believe that you try to run away

from your own body

and the only time you freeze instead

is when you’re asked

what you want,

then you’re a deer in headlights

because you’ve been treated like prey

all your life.

But you know what?

I also believe that you,

right now,

are deserving of experiencing

right now.

I also believe that you stayed in this body

for a reason.

That you stayed through it all because

feeling at home in it

is sweeter than what it had to face.

I also believe that you deserve no less

than people who make you feel like 

everything is tinted in a sweet pink

of wishing the best for you.

I also believe that your sweet resistance

is the end of a bloodline

of every abuse people felt they could

pump through your veins

and make you live off of.

I believe you can live off of so much more

than that and them,

I believe that you are wading in an ocean

that is your happiness,

in a boat that is your body,

towards a horizon that is

whatever you want to achieve.

I believe that you can only achieve

the amount of happiness you let yourself,

so let yourself.

I believe you can let yourself.

I believe you can be here.

I believe you.