A Whisper Becoming a Roar

Mixed Media on Paper, 15" x 11", 2025

"Beneath the ashes, something stirs-

a heartbeat like thunder,

a whisper becoming a roar.

Pain taught me silence,

but fire taught me to stand.

I wear my scars like stripes,

the mark of survival-

and in the jungle of my own becoming,

I am the tiger."