(very soft humming with low cello, rain ambience, and fading fire crackle) Verse 1 You don’t have to speak tonight I can hear the hurt beneath the quiet The way your breathing catches low The way your hands still hold too tightly The fire burns soft beside us Rain leans gently at the glass And nothing here demands explanations For the shadows trying to pass Chorus You don’t have to speak Not every wound can become words Some grief lives too deep in the body To survive being disturbed So rest here Stay here Let the silence hold your weight You are not difficult to love Simply because your pain grew heavy late Verse 2 The bells hang still beside the doorway Lavender rests against the sheets Your heartbeat slowly losing rhythm To the warmth beneath your cheek No shame lives in this quiet sorrow No failure in needing rest Even rivers run in silence sometimes On their way back to the sea again Bridge There are nights when surviving leaves a person too tired for language Love sometimes sounds like staying anyway Final Chorus So close your eyes beside the embers Let the long night loosen slow Nothing fragile in your spirit Could make me wish to let you go And even if the silence lingers Even if sleep comes hard and deep You do not owe the world your suffering You don’t have to speak Ending (layered humming with low cello and dying embers fading almost to silence)
