Before the World Could See It

There are women

who have always known

how to imagine beyond limitation,

who could stand inside uncertainty

and still speak life over the future

as though it was already arriving.

Women who turned small spaces

into sanctuaries,

pressure into brilliance,

and survival into something

that still looked beautiful.

Women who understood

that vision is not simply seeing what is,

but believing deeply in what could be

long before anyone else does.

And maybe that is the miracle of it all—

the ability to carry so much

and still create,

still dream,

still build worlds

big enough for others to live inside too.