Before the Curtain Rose

She had the part before she even read the lines.

They lined the corridor - polished, poised, ready to be chosen. Their scripts were memorised, their heels rehearsed. And yet, when the door opened and they called her name, the room didn’t shift. It held its breath.

She didn’t walk in. She entered. Shoulders back, gaze steady, that quiet knowing reserved for women who were never taught to audition for what already belonged to them.

The producers looked up. The lighting adjusted itself. A beat passed.

It wasn’t nerves she summoned. It was lineage.

The kind they don’t teach in theatre schools or etiquette books. The kind you inherit in the stillness between mirror and doorframe, perfecting presence like it’s a second language.

She didn’t raise her voice. She raised expectations.

There was no need for a monologue. Her walk was the opening act. The rest was inevitable.

Her Measure
Grace is the quiet I sharpen before I’m seen.

Your Becoming
Move like you’re framed in soft light.

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