sit with yourself

Solitude is a quiet teacher,

a whisper that trains your soul

to breathe without approval,

to stand without applause,

to rest without someone else’s noise

giving you permission.

Aloneness stops being a wound

and becomes a weapon,

a soft, steady power

that no crowd can shake loose.

Because once you learn

how to sit with yourself,

how to hear your own heartbeat

and trust its rhythm,

the world loses its grip on you.

People may talk.

People may pull.

People may project their storms.

But you,

you walk with a calm

that no noise can bend.

Master solitude,

and peace stops being a place.

It becomes you.