"Promise Me You'll Stay" This version of me… I know you've never really seen it. Or maybe—just once or twice. Usually, I'm calm. I move with peace. Serenity lives in my heart. I’m the calm to your storm. But today... Today, I need you to be the one who puts out this fire. This raging, burning, confusing fire within me. Mother Nature? She forgot to bring a manual—again. Her visit? It's one I’m left to figure out alone, over and over. I didn’t wake up planning to be a storm myself. I didn’t mean to raise my voice. I’m just… confused. Once more, she’s doing as she pleases with my body— pushing, pulling, evoking emotions that make darkness feel… familiar. I don’t choose sadness. I just wake up with it staring me in the face, waiting to consume me whole. Some days, my emotions are a rollercoaster so wild, even I— the one riding it—don’t understand. When I go quiet, it’s not because I don’t care. When I push you away, it’s not on purpose. Sometimes, it’s just too much. I am a woman. Your woman. And there are days Mother Nature shakes my soul. So I ask you— please, try to understand me. When I fall silent, listen to that silence. Read it. When I yell, don’t take it as anger— take it as confusion, a cry for help I don’t know how to voice. Hold my hand even when I push you away. Because those days? Those are the ones I need you the most. So… Promise me you’ll stay. Not just on the easy days. But in the storm too. @bluey