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The Inner World Collection · curated edition

Shine on Me

A quiet reading

About 2 minutes · 7 stanzas

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Let me shine the light of my presence upon you not to fix, not to change, but simply to witness the wild beauty of your becoming.

Speak, if you wish. Or stay silent. Even your stillness tells stories the world forgot how to hear.

Let me be the space where your soul can exhale, where the words you’ve never said can find their way into the world.

Not everything needs healing. Some things simply need holding. So let me hold what rises. No judgment. No rush. Just this.

May my gaze remind you that nothing in you is too much not your sorrow, not your joy, not the trembling truth you carry inside.

And as your voice returns to you, as your story unfolds like dawn, may your truth awaken mine, and may we remember what is revealed in love, is never lost.

So come as you are. I’m not here to lead or follow. I’m here to walk beside you as you find your voice and I find my own, in the mirror of your light.

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“Let me shine the light of my presence upon you
not to fix, not to change,
but simply to witness
the wild beauty of your becoming.”
Shine on MePoetry by Michael Yap
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This curated edition is shared as personal artistic expression, not medical, financial or relationship advice. Sacred names and traditions are approached with respectful poetic or devotional context.

Narration is off in this release.