I’ve Got Me

I’ve Got Me They said the truth would set me free, Nobody mentioned what it'd cost. At times feeling lonely, At times feeling lost. I watched my certainties fall Like the masks that were never me... No longer looking to others To tell me who to be. Thought I was losing everything... Every dream I'd tried to keep. ‘Til I saw the river carries away What was always meant to leave. I wasn't being erased... I was learning what was me. Now I walk where I can't see Without demanding certainty. I’m not owed any guarantees, but the only guarantee is: I've got me. No more bargaining with fear, No more asking to belong, Because the voice I sought to find Was within me all along. Waking up isn’t always Light pouring through the trees. It can arrive like a gust, knocking you to your knees. It’s grieving parts of you, That were merely starving ghosts, It’s sitting with old shadows, Showing you what you fear the most. Stay still and become the watcher, As they all fade away. Seeing that you were never All the things you heard them say Every ending had an echo, Every silence had a seed. Nothing true was ever leaving... Only making room for me. I wasn't being broken... I was becoming free. Now I walk where I can't see Without demanding certainty. I’m not owed any guarantees, but the only guarantee is: I've got me. No more bargaining with fear, No more asking to belong, Because the voice I sought to find Was within me all along. Nobody tells you... You'll mourn the one Who spent a lifetime trying to protect you. You'll thank the fear... No longer possessed. You'll stop chasing certainty Long enough to hear your own footsteps. And one day... You'll realize You were never walking alone. You were walking with yourself… walking with yourself… Now I dance where I can't see, The mystery keeps calling me. I’m not owed any guarantees,but the only guarantee is: I've got me. No more bargaining with fear, No more asking to belong, Every road that brought me here Was teaching me this song. Now the voice I sought to find Is the one that's leading on... It was within me all along.