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Above Water

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Version 1 - Above water_260503_131034.pdf

Source file date/code: `260503_131034`


## Page 1

The world came in too fast today
Every wound had found my name
Every screen became a window
Every window filled with flame
Too much blood
Too much blame
Too many voices
Calling my name
Look this way
Look this way
Look this way
My body heard it all at once
Like sirens under skin
I tried to care for everything

## Page 2

And lost the room I'm in
Panic in my chest again
Static in my hands
The signal floods the body
And the body can't withstand
I reached for every drowning hand
But the water took my breath
I thought that care meant sinking too
I mistook panic for depth
You can't help the world
If you disappear
You can't pull them from the water
If you drown inside their fear
Find your breath
Find the floor
Find the room you're living for

## Page 3

Self-care is not neglecting the world
It's how I stay enough to return
It's how I keep one hand above water
When everything starts to burn
You can't save the drowning
By letting them pull you under
You can't heal the thunder
By breaking in the storm
One breath
One room
One hand against the floor
The world is still burning
But I can't hold it all anymore
Not because I do not love it
Not because I do not care

## Page 4

But I am only one body
Trying to breathe the same air
You can't help the world
If you disappear
You can't pull them from the water
If you drown inside their fear
Find your breath
Find the floor
Find the room you're living for
Self-care is not leaving the world
It's learning how to stay
Without letting all the sorrow
Drag the living part away
So I'll breathe
Before I reach
I'll stand

## Page 5

Before I speak
I'll keep my head above the water
So my hand can still mean help
I will not call it kindness
To abandon myself

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