I can fit into your world

if you just let me

I can fit into your world,
if you just let me.
I will pull myself in at the edges,
trim away the parts that don’t belong,
bite my tongue until my words taste like yours.

I know how to make myself small,
how to fold my dreams into tiny, quiet things,
tuck them into my pockets so they don’t take up space.
I have practiced this for years—
learning the way a person can disappear
without ever leaving the room.

I have worn faces that weren’t mine,
molded my laughter to match yours,
shaped my silence into something softer,
something easier to hold.

But tell me—
when I have emptied myself for you,
when I have become everything you need,
will you ever ask what I was before?
Will you ever miss what I had to lose
just to stand beside you?

Or will I always be the outline of a person,
a ghost in a body that was never mine to keep?

~ Ola

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