Shadow Words
He speaks like a storm quiet at first, then sudden shaking the ground beneath me I bend to hear him to read the meaning between his pauses but there is no meaning except control
His eyes are knives hidden behind calm cutting the parts of me I thought were mine I apologize before I know why because the silence after his words is louder than anything he says
He rewrites my memories turns truth into accusation and I start to doubt the spaces he leaves until even my own thoughts feel like trespassers
There is no kindness that lasts no love that doesn’t sting every gesture has an edge every smile a trap and I always walking on floors that might collapse under my own misstep
I remember who I was before the shadows came and I wonder if I can ever find that person again beneath the weight of his quiet destruction