"As long as this one lives."

Stay!

Not because today is beautiful.

Stay because today is not forever.

Stay because pain has lied before.

Stay because darkness has an awful habit of introducing itself as eternity. But Darkness isn't eternity so Stay.

Listen.

There are versions of you that have not arrived yet.

Laughter still searching for your mouth.

Peace still learning how to locate you.

Love still carrying your name in places you have never been.

Please do not leave before they find you.

I know.

Some nights become Heavy, Borderless., Endless.

Hope feels too expensive.

Breathing feels too ordinary to count as courage. But it actually does take a lot to keep breathing.

Sometimes courage is embarrassingly small.

Opening your eyes. Drinking water.

Answering tomorrow with your heartbeat instead of your certainty.

That counts.

Bẹ́yíọ̀kú.

As long as this one lives, possibility is still alive.

As long as this one lives, the story refuses to end where the pain started.

As long as this one lives, morning still has permission to arrive.

So if all you can do today is live, Kindly live.

If all you can do is stay, Please stay.

If all you can carry is one more sunrise, Carry that.

And Maybe one more sunset.

Bẹ́yíọ̀kú.

As long as this one lives... There is hope.