There is a place inside you No map has ever traced, a quiet room behind the ribs where light forgets to stay. No one sees it when you smile, No one hears it when you speak. It moves beneath your laughter like a river running deep. It is yours alone to carry, not carved for other hands, a language made of silence Only your soul understands. Some mornings it is heavier, a stone you cannot name, And still you rise and wear your life as if it were the same. But pain, it does not leave you when ignored or pushed away, it waits within the folds of time, it learns you day by day. It is not your enemy, though it cuts without a sound; it is the truth you buried but still lives underground. And yes, there are nights it breaks you, when endurance feels too wide, when even breath feels borrowed And there is nowhere left to hide. Yet somehow you continue, not because you do not fall, but because within the breaking You still answer life’s call. You learn to walk beside it, not beneath it, not above...
Failure upon failure
like waves that never learn mercy,
each one rises higher than the last,
crashing into what little I managed to build.
Trials come as fire,
not the kind that warms,
but the kind that hunts,
burning beginnings before they can breathe.
Dreams turn to smoke,
plans to blackened bones.
Morning arrives without promise,
Tomorrow is an empty word,
Hope is a language I no longer speak.
I wake only because sleep lets me go.
Every finger points in my direction
sharp, accusing, certain.
They do not ask what I carried.
They only measure what I dropped.
In their eyes, I am the lesson,
the warning, the mistake.
I feel like a victim in my own life,
trapped inside a story
Others narrate with cruel confidence.
Even my strength is questioned,
Even my silence is judged.
I searched the ruins for light,
but found only echoes of who I was.
Faith feels foolish here,
Prayers fall like stones, unanswered.
All hope seems lost,
buried beneath ash and blame,
beneath fires that never taught me how to rise_
only how to burn.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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