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...
I cried because of you,
not from weakness,
But from loving you with my clean heart
In a world that taught you how to take
and leave.
You used what was pure,
then set it down like it meant nothing.
So I wept.
Not loudly.
Not for sympathy.
But because even the strongest hearts
must release their grief somewhere.
Remember this;
Some tears do not fall to the ground.
Some rise.
They go straight to the Lord,
carrying names, carrying the truth.
I may look foolish today,
standing in the wreckage of trust,
But time is a quiet judge.
God turns the tables without a warning.
What you handed me in shame
will return to you as a burden.
Tomorrow, I will flourish.
Not loudly
but fully.
And you will wear the foolishness
you once placed on me.
One day, you will dine on memory,
feasting on the tears
You never thought it would matter.
You will search for forgiveness,
reach for my name
and find only silence.
That is when you will know:
Karma has arrived,
not to wound,
But to remind you
that nothing taken unjustly
is ever forgotten.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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