16/12/2025
That’s okay though - because peace does come.
Not the kind demanded too early, or forced in the absence of accountability. Rather, the kind that arrives quietly, honestly, and on your own terms. Healing is not linear. It moves in waves.
Each wave may pull you back into rumination, grief, or devastation -
but each time, the disorientation is less violent, less consuming.
Until one day, almost without ceremony, you realise you can say:
I forgive you. Not for you. For me.
Because forgiveness is not reconciliation. It is not absolution. And it is never an obligation.
The systems of this world are not the final judge. We all pay for our actions - for our choices, our apathy and decisions - especially those born of cruelty, cowardice, and malicious intent. Justice may be delayed. It may be denied.
But accountability has a way of arriving - through truth, through consequence, through the quiet reckoning that no power can indefinitely outrun. And survivors do not need to be silent, compliant, or “peaceful” to be whole.
They only need to be free.