Because You Never Believed in Me

Hesitant to speak
To step into the light
Peripherally content
To walk alongside
And share the sun
Spilled along the edge
Rarely touching my spirit.
Never quite warming
Never blossoming fully alive
Perennial seeds without water
Absent of germination
Or tendered nurturing
Left unfurled
For lack of heat and light.
But when you moved away
The source did not change
Giving me my own place
Among the flowers.
I found my voice
And bloomed because
I believed
In myself alone
And took the rays
That were mine.