My Contest Entries - The Weight of Silence

Contest Title: POETRY: The Art of Feeling

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I screamed in rooms that stayed stone still,

my words dissolved against their will.

A thousand truths I tried to say,

but every echo died away.

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They told me scars would fade with time,

yet bled I did in every rhyme.

The weight of silence crushed my chest,

a grave was carved where dreams should rest.

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I stitched my wounds with threads of rage,

a prisoner locked inside this cage.

The world moved on, it didn’t care,

while I kept drowning in the air.

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The mirror swears I look the same,

but in my veins runs ash and flame.

Forgiveness never crossed this sea—

the ghost I lost still buries me.

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And if I rise, I rise alone,

a body made of sharpened bone.

For some of us, the truth is clear:

not every wound will disappear.

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