Chaostrude
I am a mess — but not one to be fixed.
I am the ruins and the rebuilding.
I am the storm that walked away from the wreckage,
Still breathing. Still burning. Still me.
They hurt me.
Often.
And I stayed.
Not because I was weak —
But because I believed people were more than their wounds.
I saw the parts no one else saw.
I loved them anyway.
But something changed.
The tether broke.
I don’t chase what cuts me anymore.
I don’t anchor to people who never learned to hold me.
I care — but I don’t cling.
I remember — but I don’t return.
There’s no hatred in me.
Just a quiet goodbye
to a thousand versions of myself
who thought love meant bleeding.
I am chaos,
but I’m not lost.
I am truth,
even when it’s uncomfortable.
I am the fire,
but also the one who walked through it.
I am Chaostrude.
Not a title.
A becoming.
Copyright © Becoming trude from the ruins | Year Posted 2025
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