Ketchie

Looking at something this breathtaking, it is easy to forget that before it became a view… it was somebody’s impossible idea.
Somebody dreamed it.
Somebody worked while nobody watched.
Somebody kept building when it looked unfinished.
And one day people stood beneath it and called it beautiful.
Maybe that is truly what building a life feels like.

I will build the same way… slowly, stubbornly, and one day at a time.

I’ve drowned in nights that never ended…
sat in rooms where the silence felt louder than my heartbeat.
Lost pieces of myself I can never get back…
and parents I can only talk to in my dreams.
Some nights, the weight felt too heavy and the silence too deep.
I’ve stared at the ground and seen nothing but shadows.
I’ve lost more than I ever thought I could bear, including the ones who made me.
But if you’re out there thinking you can’t make it through — don’t buy into that lie.
You’re stronger than the darkness.
Believe in yourself when no one else will!!!!!

-Ketchie