Protect your time,
because the hours you spend
never walk back through the door.

Use your gifts,
the ones you carry quietly,
the ones that ache to be seen.

Life does not return what we waste.
Every moment spent asleep to yourself
is a moment you never meet again.

Guard your time like breath.
Honor the gifts that chose you.

Live with intention while the light is still warm,
because what you hold inside
was never meant to be buried.