The Shape of My Silence

In the quiet I’ve been carrying There’s a voice I couldn’t trace Like an echo growing softer In a long-forgotten place I’ve been walking through the shadows Of the things I couldn’t say But the silence has a shape now And it’s steady when I stay If you listen close enough You might hear me letting go Not of everything I’ve lost Just the weight I shouldn’t hold There’s a calm inside this stillness Where the noise can’t redefine I’m learning how to breathe again In the shape of my silence There were words that fell to pieces Long before they reached the air There were nights I held them tightly Thinking breaking meant repair But the truth lives in the quiet In the parts that never speak What I lost was just the armor What I found was space beneath If you listen close enough You might hear me letting go Not of everything I’ve lost Just the weight I shouldn’t hold There’s a calm inside this stillness Where the noise can’t redefine I’m learning how to breathe again In the shape of my silence Maybe strength is not the shouting Maybe healing’s in the hush Maybe hearts relearn their rhythm When they’re held, and not just pushed If you listen close enough You might hear me settling in Not with answers, not with triumph Just a pause beneath the din There’s a light inside this quiet That I don’t need to define I’m learning how to stay with it In the shape of my silence In the shape of my silence