<p><br/></p><p>When the night grew heavy</p><p>and silence pressed against my chest,</p><p>I thought I was alone.</p><p>My shadow felt long, my voice small,</p><p>and the road ahead endless.</p><p><br/></p><p>But within that quiet,</p><p>a rhythm rose — soft, ancient, steady.</p><p>It was not my own.</p><p>It was theirs.</p><p>Those who came before me,</p><p>those unseen, yet ever near.</p><p><br/></p><p>Their breath stirred the dust around my feet,</p><p>their whispers shaped the wind.</p><p>“Do not fear, child of spirit,” they said.</p><p>“No darkness can hide your name.</p><p>You are light carved from our memory,</p><p>you are strength born from our prayers.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Rise, for our bones built your path.</p><p>Our stories live in your veins.</p><p>You are the echo of our courage.</p><p>We are the descendants of the unseen,</p><p>born from whispers older than the wind.</p><p>We walk in peace,</p><p>deliver light through shadows,</p><p>and speak without sound.”</p><p><br/></p><p>I bowed my head, weary from the journey,</p><p>and they lifted it gently.</p><p>They reminded me that loneliness</p><p>is only the space where their voices echo.</p><p>They reminded me that pain</p><p>is the drumbeat that wakes the soul.</p><p><br/></p><p>Through my tears, I saw them —</p><p>not with eyes, but with the pulse in my blood.</p><p>They moved like water through my bones,</p><p>speaking in waves,</p><p>singing in silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>I made water my strength —</p><p>soft, calm, but fierce when moved.</p><p>It taught me to bend, never to break,</p><p>to flow around the stones of doubt,</p><p>to find my way through the narrow places of fear.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Timileyin,” they called me,</p><p>“Trust in us, and trust in yourself.</p><p>For your name is not just given — it is a promise.</p><p>You carry our strength when yours falters.</p><p>You are the vessel of our hope.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Their words became my shield.</p><p>Their faith became my fire.</p><p>Even when my spirit trembles,</p><p>their calm steadies me.</p><p>Even when I feel broken,</p><p>their power fills the cracks with gold.</p><p><br/></p><p>I walk now with unseen company —</p><p>their footsteps matching mine,</p><p>their hearts beating in my rhythm.</p><p>I am never alone, even in stillness.</p><p>Their courage breathes through me.</p><p>Their songs rise through my voice.</p><p><br/></p><p>When I fall, they whisper, “Rise again.”</p><p>When I doubt, they remind me,</p><p>“You are Timileyin —</p><p>the one who carries trust like flame,</p><p>the one who was never abandoned,</p><p>the one who walks with the wind of his fathers.”</p><p><br/></p><p>So I move forward,</p><p>soft, calm, but fierce when moved.</p><p>I bend, but never break.</p><p>For they walk with me —</p><p>and I with them.</p><p><br/></p><p>Forever bound in breath and truth.</p><p>Forever guided by the unseen.</p><p>Forever alive —</p><p>in spirit, in strength,</p><p>in the name that means,</p><p>Timileyin — trust in us. </p>
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