The truth cannot stroke your hair until you fall asleep at night. it cannot entwine itself with your body because it feels there is no other way for it to rest until morning.
Tell it anyway.
The truth cannot convince you of your beauty when you know your ugliness is showing for all to see. It cannot be a physical barrier between you and the disappointment that may face you today
Tell it anyway.
It cannot soothe the fears that come to taunt you, or whisper comfort into your ear when the world becomes dark.
Tell it anyway.
Tell it and open the door for anyone who needs to go. Tell it and keep telling it - even if the only ones left to hear it are you and your truth, alone, together. Speak it until you feel like the person you were always meant to be. Own it until you don't fear the consequences of it anymore.
Speak it knowing that the truth cannot make you the centre of its universe. Cannot hold your hand for the world to see. Will never shout your achievements from the rooftops. Shall never announce to the world "This is my person, my someone and I am proud of them". Knowing it won't. It can't. It can only be what it is. A fact. An open admission. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Say it and discover that there is a power to the truth. A solid certain sureness. A stabilising quality that keep us sure of the ground beneath our feet. Voice it and realise it is a comfort within itself. A reassurance that another cannot provide us. A deep, true, core, foundation that so many lasting things of real substance can be built upon.
Say it and feel the comfortable easy knowing. The rightness within ourselves. The sensation of finally fitting into our own skin.
Mark it and finally know peace. A peace that inevitably comes with acceptance. Acceptance of who we are, a deeper sense of trust in where we are going. A reassurance that all is fine.
The truth cannot stroke your hair until you fall asleep at night. It cannot entwine itself with your body because it feels there is no other way for it to rest until morning. But it can ensure that you are closer to finding the person that will-maybe closer than you've ever been in your entire life. So;
Tell it anyway.