When Silence Raised Me

No footsteps ever crossed the floor No shadows moved behind the door The rooms were still, the clocks forgot The quiet shaped what time could not A name that no one learned to say A ghost that grew and slipped away No lullaby, no whispered night Just empty walls that held me tight I stared into the hollow space Where love should live, I found a face Silence raised me, soft and deep Taught me how the void can speak No arms to hold, no eyes to meet Just fading noise beneath my feet It rocked me slow through distant days Wrapped in cold, familiar haze Silence raised me, all alone Turned a body into stone I built a voice from shards of air It cracked and vanished, no one cared I learned to echo off the dust To mimic love I couldn't trust No door was locked, but none were wide The world just passed and stayed outside I grew in corners dim with doubt A quiet child the world tuned out The silence carved me line by line And filled the blanks you left behind Silence raised me, soft and deep Taught me how the void can speak No arms to hold, no eyes to meet Just fading noise beneath my feet It rocked me slow through distant days Wrapped in cold, familiar haze Silence raised me, all alone Turned a body into stone I don't remember being known Just distant light through weighted tone You called it calm, I called it gone A song without a single tone No shouts, no screams Just muted dreams No fire, no flood Just frozen blood Silence raised me, soft and deep Taught me how the void can speak No arms to hold, no eyes to meet Just fading noise beneath my feet It rocked me slow through distant days Wrapped in cold, familiar haze Silence raised me, all alone Turned a body into stone Silence shaped me into grey Took my voice and locked it away A thousand echoes never heard Not a line, not a single word I tried to scream, but nothing stayed Just shadows mouthing what I prayed Silence raised me — now it owns Every part I’ve never shown