Soft Place to Land

You read a room before you speak a word Feel every shift before it’s heard Your mind runs fast, your heart runs deep You carry things you never keep They loved you loud, then loved you wrong Left you learning how to be strong But strength like yours is soft and rare It’s staying kind when life’s unfair You don’t have to armour up tonight You don’t have to be on guard in my sight So I give you princess treatment, not for show It’s in the way I hold you slow In the patience, in the calm I choose In every promise I don’t a***e I won’t raise my voice, I won’t disappear I won’t turn your trust into fear With me, love’s a place you rest Not another test Your focus wanders, then locks in tight You shine the most in your own light You see the world a step ahead Catch the things nobody said When anxiety pulls at your chest I don’t rush you, I let you rest If silence feels safer than talk I’ll sit with you, I’ll match your walk Your past doesn’t get to speak for me I’m here now — this is how it’ll be So I give you princess treatment every day In the quiet, ordinary way In showing up, in staying kind In being steady with your mind I won’t raise my voice, I won’t disappear I won’t turn your trust into fear With me, love’s a place you rest Not another test They taught you love meant walking on glass That it never lasts, it never lasts But I don’t need chaos to feel alive I choose you in the calm, every time You don’t owe me healing fast You don’t owe me forgetting the past Just let me prove, through what I do That gentle love can still be true So take your crown, it’s always been yours I’m not here to lock it in drawers I’ll help you wear it without the weight Without the fear of it breaking late Princess treatment — real and true Not pedestal love, just seeing you And if home was a person, not a place It’d be you, in this moment, safe You don’t have to run or hide I’m right here, right by your side