Poem: You are Enough

You wake up measuring yourself
against a world that never learned your name—
counting flaws like stars
in a sky that was never yours to map.

But listen—
before the noise,
before the doubt learned how to speak,
you were already whole.

Not because you proved it,
not because you earned it,
but because you arrived here
breathing.

You are enough
in the quiet way a heartbeat is enough—
steady, unseen,
keeping everything alive.

You are enough
without shrinking,
without editing your edges
to fit someone else’s idea of beauty.

Even now,
in your unsure moments,
in the pauses between confidence,
in the days that feel unfinished—

you are not lacking.
You are unfolding.

So stand in your own presence
like it matters—
because it does.

There is nothing missing in you
that you need to become worthy.
No future version
holds the permission you’re waiting for.

You are enough—
not someday,
not when,
not if.

Now.
Quietly, fiercely,
completely—
now.

Thank-you for reading,

Brenda Marie