When your gaze found mine, the whole world swayed, As if the earth had missed a hidden beat; The sunlight suddenly grew unafraid, Then melted like warm gold around my feet. I tried to look away, but something stayed, A trembling little universe in you; My eyes became two doors I could not close, And every secret seemed to wander through. I felt my cheeks turn roses in the rain, A sudden fire underneath my skin; The stars began to whisper my sweet shame, While little suns kept blooming from within. Your eyes were not just eyes, they were a place, A strange blue room where gravity was gone; I wandered through the silence of your gaze And somehow lost the person I was on. My heartbeat stumbled, then forgot its name, It ran barefoot through corridors of light; I blushed as though the moon had called me beautiful, Then hid my face from heaven's watching sight. The trees leaned closer, jealous of the view, The flowers opened wider just to see; Even the wind became unusually shy, As thoug...
They mistook her kindness for a lack of sense,
Called her foolish, bent her will,
Turned her service into offense,
And worked her spirit until it stood still.
They spoke over her, used her days,
Then erased her good with careless tongues,
Ungrateful words replaced her praise,
Each lie louder than the truth she’d sung.
Because she wore no fancy clothes,
No borrowed shine, no proud display,
They judged her worth by dress and strife
And laughed at the quiet way she stayed.
Her heart bled softly, unseen, unheard,
An inner pain she learned to hide,
She grew weak alone, yet in their world
She stood upright, unbroken inside.
All she asked of heaven’s ear
Was one small opening, one return,
A path back home, to roots held dear,
To the place her wounded soul still yearned.
And when that opening finally came,
She did not look back, she did not plead
She left with scars, but not with shame,
Returning to her roots… her truest creed.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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