You laugh at them. You point your finger and call them a fool. Their silence amuses you, their gentleness becomes your joke, and the crowd joins your laughter as if kindness were weakness. It feels enjoyable today, sweet on your tongue like careless victory. Their patience becomes your stage, their humility your entertainment. But time is a quiet witness. It watches without speaking, It writes its lessons slowly in the turning pages of life. A day will come When laughter turns into tears. The echoes of your mockery will return to your own ears like thunder across an empty sky. Situations will arise without warning, storms without hands to beat you Yet heavy enough to break your pride. Pain will arrive quietly, And you will feel the trembling of a heart that once laughed too loudly. And that fool, that funny person you once mocked, may stand in the distance, not laughing, but witnessing your tears, your shaking voice, Your falling ego. For life has a patient way of bending the tallest p...
Every breath within my fragile ribcage
Is born from the cathedral of your presence.
Before air touches my lungs,
It passes through the memory of you,
Consecrated, trembling, eternal.
You are the hush between my heartbeats,
The unseen tide that governs
The oceans of my becoming.
Even silence bends toward you,
Heavy with unspoken devotion.
My thoughts are no longer my own,
They are constellations spelling your name
Across the dark velvet of my mind.
Each whisper I release into the night
Returns carrying your echo.
You dwell in the marrow of my longing,
In the sacred corridors of my pulse.
Like incense rising in a quiet sanctuary,
My love for you ascends,
Slow, reverent, consuming.
I have searched for language vast enough
To cradle what I feel,
But even the oldest stars
Burn out before they can describe you.
You are the gravity beneath my wandering soul,
The quiet fire beneath my skin,
The scripture my breath recites
Without ceasing.
Every inhale is a vow.
Every exhale, your name.
Every flicker of thought.
A testament that I am undone,
Beautifully, irrevocably
In love with you.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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