Friday, November 14, 2025

Spoken Cycle

 Silent feelings

from twisted words

into shapes I couldn’t recognize.


So I learned to pause my thoughts.


And then—
Your silence came too.
So empty and barren,
where the quiet is so loud
my screams still couldn’t find a way out.


So I learned to hold my tongue. 


Gaslighted

 into submission.
into second-guessing

 Ignoring intuition
just to keep the peace

 that never kept me.

 

I saw the pattern.
Saw it clear.
Saw it coming.
Saw it circling.


But I cycled back.


Out of hope.
Out of habit.
Out of believing
you’d meet me in the place
where my heart lived.


But all I met was silence.
 

And then the whisper
of my own voice
calling me home.

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