### **Never Been Loved**
I was a whisper, lost in the tide,
A story rewritten, a life denied.
They carved my name into silence deep,
Told me to falter, told me to weep.
I was a wager, a prize unseen,
A game they played in places obscene.
Held in their grasp, erased in their sight,
Kept in the dark, fearing the light.
But I would not vanish, I would not break,
Their power was hollow, their grip a mistake.
I learned to stand where shadows fell,
To raise my voice, to cast the spell.
Love was a cage, forged in control,
Twisted by hands that swallowed me whole.
But I am no victim, no token, no pawn,
I am the dawn, I am the dawn.
Now the world listens, now they see,
The weight of truth belongs to me.
I was never owned, never their kind—
I have **always** been mine.