Shards in Silence
July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025
I dance in muted storms beneath an endless rain
I press my secrets into folds of bruised shoes unseen
I hide each crack that cleaves my story in between
While they crown her grief and drown me in my rain
I grew to Glass Child shape, formed by childhood’s spectral hold
She stumbles new upon this tortured path I know
Yet I shrink in silence so her anguish gets to show
Afraid to spread my shards into her tender world so cold
I color my wounds dull so her agony glows bright
I swallow my sharp edges, camouflaging cuts so thin
She’s given every echo of her pain on trembling skin
And I fade to a pale whisper in this bitter light
I breathe between two worlds, my sorrow lost in thin air
But words collapse to dust before they bridge our separate seas
I want to offer solace, but fear my balm won't appease
So I bury dawn’s confession deep within the thin air
I cradle every memory of childhood love I lost
She weeps with candid mercy under open skies
I fold my brittle shadows where unspoken sorrow lies
And drift alone in silence, counting all that love has lost
I’ll learn to let my whispered scars find comfort in her gaze
To speak the words I locked inside, though tremors still remain
To mesh my stifled heartbeats with her rhythm in the rain
And bridge the gulfs of quietude that held me in their haze