Someone Worth Becoming

[Verse 1]
I left the curtains open wide
Let morning find the room
The dishes from the night before
Can wait beside the broom
I wrote my name in pencil first
Then let the paper stay
One honest breath, one steady step
Can count as change today

[Pre-Chorus]
I don't have to earn my rest
I don't have to outrun pain
I can meet myself right here
And begin again

[Chorus]
I am learning how to stay
When the old alarms go ringing
I can give my heart a day
Without asking what it's bringing
Little by little, I return
To the life beneath the striving
I am not a thing to fix
I am someone worth becoming

[Verse 2]
I called my sister on the walk
Past the bakery at noon
She knew the joke I almost made
And left a little room
I told the truth without a speech
Said, “Some days still feel rough”
She said, “Then let them be the days
You practice being enough”

[Pre-Chorus]
I don't have to name the prize
Or compare the miles I've run
I can make a gentler choice
Before the day is done

[Chorus]
I am learning how to stay
When the old alarms go ringing
I can give my heart a day
Without asking what it's bringing
Little by little, I return
To the life beneath the striving
I am not a thing to fix
I am someone worth becoming

[Bridge]
At the sink, I washed one cup
And watched the water clear
No grand arrival, no new skin
Just both my hands right here
I forgive the years I spent
Mistaking hurt for proof
The door was never locked at all
I had to trust the room

[Final Chorus]
I am learning how to stay
Even when the old alarms ring
I can give my heart a day
And let it choose its own beginning
Little by little, I return
With both feet inside the living
I am not a thing to fix
I am someone worth becoming
Someone worth becoming
I am here, and I am living