I learned that silence ain’t empty it’s a language the world forgot it speaks in dust and breathes in thought I used to fear quiet like it came with a knife now I wear it like armor cutting through life I’m not healed I’m just rearranged same letters, different name same fire, different flame the world screams loud but I hum instead I found peace where the noise went dead still ain’t stoppin’ it’s movin’ slow with meaning it’s breakin’ the loop without deleting the feeling I found beauty in the way pain folds like paper swans made from untold stories I stitched my wounds with threads of rain each drop a truth that forgave the pain the past still knocks but I changed the locks I don’t owe ghosts their old applause every scar’s a memory signed in flesh a map of places I won’t forget I used to chase time like it owed me peace now I let it pass like wind through leaves I learned to stand without arrival to live without survival to bloom without permission to end without an ending still ain’t silence it’s the echo of breath the calm that blooms in the space of death I found my rhythm in the sound of loss each heartbeat a drum against the frost I used to want love to prove I could heal now I just feel to prove I am real my anger softened till it sang in tune with the ache I hid beneath my ruin still don’t mean rest it means awake aware of the fire I refused to fake I ain’t seekin’ closure just balance between the weight of what was and the light I’ve seen I don’t need answers they come too cheap I need the questions that keep me deep still is me without translation a poem without punctuation I don’t float above I just fall better every descent rewrites my letter still is what remains when the noise burns out it’s the whisper between faith and doubt it’s the hum of the earth before it spins the breath between what breaks and begins still don’t chase still don’t run still just stays when all is done I used to want endings now I just want air something unspoken that keeps me there so if I fade let it be slow I was never lost just learnin’ to go still alive still made still more still unafraid
