Feel free to forget
the noise that tried to shape you,
the voices that mistook their fear
for your boundaries.

Forget the race
that never had a finish line,
the cold rooms
where you made yourself smaller
just to be allowed in.

Let go of the names
that never fit,
the mirrors that asked you
to apologize.

Forget the versions of you
built only to please,
the days that blurred
under someone else's pace.

You are not a record
of everything endured.
You are what remains
after the leaving.