There is a war inside you.
You already know this.
Not the kind that shouts—
the kind that waits.
That bleeds quietly.
That you carry everywhere, even when you smile.
The mind always speaks first
“Stay here.”
“Be smart.”
“Stay where applause is guaranteed.”
It makes sense.
And God, how much you’ve tried to make sense.
You’ve folded yourself into logic
so many times
you forgot what your shape used to be.
But sense is not the same as peace.
And you know that too.
Then comes the beat
It doesn’t speak.
It shakes.
It burns.
It aches.
It doesn’t tell you what to do—
it asks if you remember.
“Is this really it?”
“Is this the life you promised yourself?”
You hear it.
But it doesn’t come with proof.
Only a pulse.
A rawness.
A pull.
But fear is fluent
“You don’t have enough money.”
“They’ll leave.”
“You’ll fail.”
It’s convincing, isn’t it?
How it sounds like your voice.
How it uses your mother’s tone.
Your father’s silence.
Your culture’s shame.
So what now?
Do you choose the voice that kept you safe—
or the one that never stopped shaking?
Do you honor the traditions
that built your prison—
or the feeling
you’ve buried beneath decades of being “reasonable”?
There’s no right answer here.
Only one that leaves you dead while breathing,
and one that burns everything you thought you were.
You already know which one you’re avoiding.
And maybe—
it’s time to ask yourself why.
Choose now.
Because if you don’t—
you will wake in ten years
and not recognize your own reflection.
You will hear a voice laugh in your chest,
and it will not be joy.
It will be grief.
Grief for all the songs you never sang.
Grief for all the oceans you never swam.
Grief for the self you exiled
in the name of being acceptable.
But if you leap—
you will not land where you think.
You will land where you’ve always belonged:
In the center of your own becoming.
Raw. Unplanned. Infinite.
Not a product of perfection,
but a testimony of truth.
So go.
Not because it’s easy.
But because your soul is already halfway there,
screaming at the edge of your ribcage:
“I didn’t come here to watch.
I came here to burn.”
I love you,
BV
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