Reine Sobre | Mim

Since this is a poetic and slightly ambiguous title, I will interpret it as a reflective, first-person essay about self-sovereignty, identity, and the reclaiming of personal power. Below is an original essay written in English, but structured to honor the lyrical, bilingual spirit of the title. "Reine sobre mim."

To be reine sobre mim is to accept that you will sometimes be misunderstood. Queens are. It is to know that your reign will not always be easy—there will be rebellions of doubt, coups of anxiety, whispers of imposter syndrome. But a sovereign does not abdicate at the first sign of storm. She anchors. She breathes. She remembers that the crown stays on, even when the wind howls. reine sobre mim

For years, I lived as a subject in the kingdom of others. I handed the scepter to expectation, to the gaze of the crowd, to the loud voices that told me who I should be. I learned to curtsy before approval, to measure my worth by the applause of a room that was never truly mine. In that court, I was a servant—polite, accommodating, exhausted. I built altars to "should" and burned my own desires as offerings. Since this is a poetic and slightly ambiguous