Sometimes, even when I know strength is real, 
            I just can’t feel it.

I try to remember it’s there.
            But everything around me is loud.
And other things inside me are louder --
            They pile on, and that quiet feeling gets buried.

I’ve had moments where I thought,
            “Maybe I just imagined it.

            Maybe that strength was never really there.”
But I was wrong.
            It was still there.
And it is still here!
            It's just hard to hear under all the noise.

When it’s hard to feel strong,
            Sometimes the best thing I can do is… nothing.
            Stop trying to fix everything.
Just breathe.
            And wait a little.
Then the strength shows up again, 
            not because I earned it,
But because it never left.