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...
She was here,
for a moment
too small for the clocks to measure,
too brief for the world to understand,
yet long enough
to leave fingerprints upon a mother's soul.
A baby girl.
A whispered promise
wrapped in fragile dreams,
carried beneath a hopeful heart
that had already imagined
a thousand tomorrows.
Then came the silence.
A silence so heavy
it bent the walls inward.
A silence that settled
inside empty rooms,
inside folded blankets,
inside the spaces
where laughter was meant to grow.
The mother wept.
Not the gentle tears
that fall with ordinary sadness.
These were ancient tears.
The kind born from a wound
too deep for language,
too sacred for explanation.
She cried for first steps
that would never mark the floor.
For tiny hands
that would never reach for hers.
For lullabies
that would remain unsung,
their melodies trapped forever
inside her trembling chest.
Night after night,
she gathered her grief
like broken glass.
Each memory,
each dream,
each unanswered prayer
cut her anew.
The stars offered no comfort.
The heavens gave no reasons.
The world continued turning,
cruel in its indifference,
while her heart remained buried
beneath the weight of what could have been.
And so the seasons passed.
Winter settled where spring
had once been expected.
The flowers bloomed,
yet she could not.
The birds sang,
yet she heard only echoes.
For some losses
do not fade.
They become part of the bone,
part of the blood,
part of the shadow
a soul carries forever.
Then one quiet evening,
standing among the ashes
of shattered hopes,
she stopped asking why.
Not because the pain was gone.
Not because she had forgotten.
But because grief itself
had become a form of love.
A love with nowhere to go.
A love that would never die.
She knelt beside the ruins
of her broken dreams
and planted a single flower.
Not for goodbye.
For remembrance.
For the daughter
whose heartbeat still lived
inside her own.
The wind carried her tears away.
The earth received them gently.
And in that moment,
acceptance arrived,
not as peace,
not as healing,
but as a quiet companion
sitting beside sorrow.
The ashes remained.
The ache remained.
The love remained.
And beneath a darkening sky,
a mother learned
that some hearts never recover.
They simply learn
to carry the absence
with grace.
For though her baby girl
had become part of the stars,
she would forever remain
the most beautiful chapter
that ended
far too soon.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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