[Verse 1]
She learned to read a room before she learned to read a book
By ten years old she'd swallowed things that no child undertook
She built her walls from silence, mortared tight with second-guessing
Turned the loudest kind of hurting into something past expressing
Her mind runs wide as open country, restless, always scanning
But she folds herself to half her size, a soul that's tired of standing

[PreChorus]
She carries what was done to her like gravel in her chest
And turns it over, judges it, and rarely lets it rest

[Chorus]
Joline, you were forged in something fiercer than you know
Every scar you turned inward kept a harder truth below
The girl who had to grow up fast grew something undefeated
Joline, you are not the damage — you were never what they needed

[Verse 2]
She doesn't trust a door that opens easy or too wide
She takes her time, she watches first, keeps her devotion locked inside
But when she loves, she loves like someone building something meant to last
Like hands that check the foundation twice, remembering the past
She pours herself in quietly — no grand romantic gesture
Just steady, bone-deep loyalty, a covenant, a treasure

[PreChorus]
Her harshest critic lives behind her own two tired eyes
But everything she's kept alive in her is how she'll rise

[Chorus]
Joline, you carry depth that very few could even hold
Every quiet contradiction in you is worth more than gold
The one who got the hardest road still finds a way to tend it
Joline, you are the harvest — don't you dare let someone end it

[Verse 3]
The equinox comes turning when the dark and daylight meet as one
When everything that's gathered gets to face the equal sun
She's standing at that threshold now, her hands still full of all she's carried
Two decades worth of heavy, and she's still the one who married
Herself to hope, again, again, through every door that closed
The woman asking who she is already knows

[PreChorus]
The story written on her before she had a say
Don't get to write the chapter where she finally finds her way

[Chorus]
Joline, let the season turn and lay the old grief down
Everything the years took early couldn't take your crown
The fire that went quiet was just learning how to gather
Joline, step into your own name — nothing else will matter

[Bridge]
She's not who they made her in that house before she had words
She's not the shame, not the secret, not the silence no one heard
She's the one who kept on choosing mornings after broken nights
She's the sum of every time she stayed and fought to find the light

[Outro]
The harvest comes for what survives, and Joline, you survived
Every version that they buried, you still came back alive
Go easy on the girl inside — she did the best she knew
Joline, the one you're hardest on is worthy of you