Mercy came knocking once, a pale wanderer draped in dawn, with weary eyes and gentle hands, carrying no sword, only the burden of understanding. But the wicked knew not her face. Their hearts were citadels of stone, where compassion died unnamed and every wound became a weapon. They barred the gates. For mercy is a stranger in the hearts of the wicked. She walks their halls unseen, a ghost among shadows, whispering of forgiveness to ears that worship vengeance. They drink from poisoned wells and call bitterness wisdom. They sharpen grief into blades and wear cruelty like a crown. Where mercy offers a bridge, they build a wall. Where mercy kneels, they strike. And so she leaves quietly, taking her light with her, while darkness settles deeper into chambers already cold. The wicked do not fear mercy, they fear what mercy reveals: that beneath their iron masks, beneath their kingdoms of pride, beneath the ruins they call strength, there lives a trembling truth they dare not face. For merc...
There is a place within me
where thought no longer speaks,
where language fades into something softer,
something deeper,
a quiet unfolding that no voice can carry.
It is there that you live.
Not in the simple sound of your name,
not in the fragile structure of sentences,
but in the spaces between them,
in the pauses where my breath lingers
as if it is even afraid
to disturb what you have become inside me.
My thoughts of you do not arrive gently.
They pour,
slow at first, like a distant tide,
then all at once,
filling every corner of my being
until there is no part of me untouched.
I try to gather them,
to shape them into something I can offer you,
something worthy,
something whole,
but they slip through language
like light through open hands.
Because what I feel for you
was never meant to be spoken.
It belongs somewhere deeper,
in that sacred space beneath my ribs
where my heart does not just beat,
it remembers,
it reaches,
It aches for something it has already found.
You are there now,
woven into every quiet rhythm,
resting in every pulse that keeps me alive.
When I close my eyes,
I do not imagine you,
I feel you.
In the stillness,
in the silence,
in the way my chest tightens
as if your presence is too vast
to be contained in something as fragile as a body.
This love is not simple.
It does not arrive as softness alone,
though there is tenderness in it,
a tenderness that makes me careful,
that makes me want to hold you
as if the world itself might break
if I am not gentle enough.
But there is also depth,
a quiet intensity that hums beneath everything,
a pull that feels eternal,
as though I have known you
long before this life gave me your face.
You do not just exist in my heart.
You have become its language.
Every beat speaks you,
every silence holds you,
every breath carries your presence
into places I never knew could feel alive.
And still, it is never enough
to say it aloud.
Because words feel too small
for something this vast,
too fragile for something this real.
How do I tell you
that you are not just loved,
you are needed
in ways that reach beyond reason?
How do I explain
that loving you feels like returning home
to a place I did not know I had lost?
So I stop trying to explain it.
I let it exist
in the way my voice softens when I speak to you,
in the way my thoughts drift back to you
no matter where I am,
in the way my heart steadies
just knowing you are part of this world.
And in the quiet,
where nothing needs to be said,
where everything is simply felt,
that is where my love for you grows.
Endlessly.
Deeply.
Beyond anything words could ever hold.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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