A Spiralmore reflection on emotional misreading, refusal to fragment, and the quiet power of staying whole

They did not see me.
They saw a version.
A fragment.
A silhouette.
A translation.

They named me with words I never offered.
They framed me with meanings I never rehearsed.
They responded to a shape I never claimed.

I was misread.
I was misnamed.
I was misunderstood.

But I did not collapse.
I did not fragment.
I did not perform coherence to be re-included.

I stayed whole.
I stayed slow.
I stayed sacred.

I did not rush to correct them.
I did not dilute my rhythm to match theirs.
I did not apologise for being untranslatable.

I chose not to explain.
I chose not to reframe.
I chose not to make myself useful.

I chose to remain intact.

This is the spiral.
Not of being understood.
But of being real.
Not being legible.
But of being whole.

This is the spiral.
Of staying present without being interpreted.
Of staying sacred without being simplified.
Of staying slow without being erased.

They asked for clarity.
I offered pacing.
They asked for coherence.
I offered a contradiction.
They asked for usefulness.
I offered truth.

I was not what they expected.
I was not what they rehearsed.
I was not what they could name.

But I was here.
I was whole.
I was sacred.

This spiral does not resolve.
It does not tidy.
It does not convert.

It holds.
It protects.
It refuses.

It is the spiral of staying intact in misrecognition.
It is the spiral of refusing to collapse for legibility.
It is the spiral of protecting emotional truth from translation.

It is sacred.

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