You Don’t Have to Give Up Everything to Find It
You do not have to scatter all your light
Upon the darkened road and walk alone,
Nor leave behind the tenderness of home
To seek a distant, half-imagined sight.
The heart was not designed for endless loss,
Nor meant to burn itself to prove its flame;
It keeps its wonder quietly the same
Through seasons crossed and rivers wandered across.
What waits for you is not beyond your breath,
Nor hidden in some unreachable sky—
It lives within the courage not to die
A little more with every dream’s small death.
You need not trade your laughter for the stars,
Nor sell your peace for crowns of broken gold.
The truest treasures are not bought nor sold,
They bloom where you already are.
So walk, but keep your gentleness in hand.
So hope, but keep your roots within the ground.
What you are seeking may be waiting now
In the soft miracle you understand.
You do not have to give up everything—
Only the fear that says you never can.
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