Lotus Color:Heather Military Green I stayed for the leggings

I stayed for the leggings

When you're done being the quieter version

Falling apart is random

Crystal pendants hang like offerings

more than once

Lotus Color:Heather Military Green I stayed for the leggingsShe has been in the deep. She knows what it takes to rise. Not the surface rising the performative comeback, the highlight reel. The real kind. The kind that happens in the dark, in the quiet, in the long stretch of becoming that nobody else sees. The kind where she had to let go of everything she thought she was before she could find out who she actually is. The lotus doesn't fight the mud. It rises through it. Roots anchored in the dark, bloom