I see myself so much in you that it hurts.
And I think that probably sometimes, you see yourself so much in me that it hurts you, too.
It’s like a song that you hear over and over again but one day you truly understand its lyrics because right in that moment, you feel it deep in your core.
It feels like looking in a mirror that shows you the truth relentlessly.

I hear the story of your power and strength that you told yourself so you feel safe,
I heard it when I started telling it to myself and I felt when it crumbled
How it tore apart my world cause I never learned to accept fear, only to conquer it
To crush and hide it away and to hack at everything that tries to reveal it, desperately
And I look back and I see you falling apart just as the story does, then and now

I am grateful that I never stopped daring to hope and to be soft
I learned soon that this feeling of softness, of stopping to fight and instead release
Release all the tears and all the fear
It’s so powerful it can heal all things that power and strength can’t ever defeat

I know, for me you wanted so much more than you got
I know, you wanted to protect me from what your own father could protect you not
I know whenever you realised you couldn’t either, it hurt you a lot
But you know, for me to look up to you, you never had to be strong –
You always just needed to be soft.