If I could choose a legacy,
it'd be for you to truly see

yourself through loving eyes
without

As a kid,
I wanted to be
larger than life,
like my Grammie.
Her inner light was
like a

I was called "worthless"
before I fully understood
the scope of that damnation.
But I heard the

As a child,
I sensed the locks
on the past
I would never learn to pick.
I heard it in

When night blinds your vision
and you stumble around,
every breath a collision
without solid

I'm told I have my father's eyes,
but his are blue, and mine are green.
Despite what he has seen,