Charlotte Lloyd - Silk & Steel (Patreon)

AI-generated.SILK & STEEL

Every flashbulb is a windowThat no one ever looks throughA thousand lenses in the darkAnd still they never see youThey hung your name ten stories highWhile you went home to silenceHe was gone before she had a nameAnd you just… carried both of them

Oh, what the world has done to youThey worship at the altarOf a woman they never knewSilk on the outsideSteel underneath

One daughter kicked the door wide openJust to prove she couldWhile the gentle one grew up knowing only loveYour sister chose to live inside your shadowRaised your girls, then raised your nameAnd never once asked you to noticeEverything she gave away

Oh, look at how you riseYou stand between your daughters and the darkLike a wall that chose to feelSilk on the outsideSteel underneath

You had every map to bitternessEvery reason to grow cruelThe hands, the silence, the nightsYou barely made it throughBut every single morningYou chose what they never gave to you

You chose the open handYou chose to stay softWhen the world taught you to hardenThat's not weakness —That is the bravest thing a heart can do

Oh, look at how you shineNot for them — but by your own designYou are a mother's arms, a shelter in the stormYou are kindness chosen dailyWhen they gave you every cause

Silk on the outside —Silk all the way down

Every morning…Though the scars still speak…You chose to stay soft

And darling —You already won.