Healing Words: Return What Was Never Yours | Poem | Poetry

This spoken-word poem invites you to let go of all the voices, expectations, and beliefs that were never truly yours. So often we carry burdens shaped by others ' words we once heard, judgments we absorbed, patterns that don’t serve us anymore.

This piece is a gentle reminder that you can return what was never yours to begin with. It’s an invitation to come home to yourself – lighter, freer, and more whole.

Transcript

The voices in my head were never really mine. They were borrowed, Taken in so I could belong. They were planted in me through shame, Through silence, Through fear. They weren't guidance, But they were survival. And yet, For years, I followed their echo, Like it was my own. Until the day I understood these voices never belonged to the child I once was. They belonged to those who broke her. And with that knowing, Their power dissolved. I return them now. Every word, Every wound, Every echo that was never mine to carry. And in the silence that remains, I can finally hear my own voice.