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The misunderstood silence
<p>The Misunderstood Silence: Days I Never Said</p><p><br/></p><p>There were days I was lost,</p><p>walking through myself</p><p>like a place I didn’t recognize.</p><p><br/></p><p>Days I was lonely,</p><p>even in rooms full of voices,</p><p>even with laughter around me</p><p>that never quite reached my chest.</p><p><br/></p><p>Days I smiled through pain,</p><p>held it behind my teeth</p><p>so no one would ask questions</p><p>I didn’t know how to answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>Days I acted strong,</p><p>took words that cut too deep,</p><p>took disrespect and wore a smile</p><p>not because it didn’t hurt,</p><p>but because I didn’t know</p><p>where to put the hurt.</p><p><br/></p><p>Days I felt it was all over,</p><p>like everything inside me</p><p>was quietly giving up</p><p>without making a sound.</p><p><br/></p><p>Days I felt death was near</p><p>not in a way I could explain,</p><p>just a closeness,</p><p>a heaviness</p><p>that made breathing feel borrowed.</p><p><br/></p><p>And still</p><p>they saw my silence</p><p>and called it nothing.</p><p><br/></p><p>They never knew</p><p>it was full of these days,</p><p>stacked on each other,</p><p>unspoken,</p><p>unseen.</p><p><br/></p><p>They never knew</p><p>my quiet was survival,</p><p>my stillness was strength,</p><p>my smile was resistance.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I stayed silent</p><p>misunderstood,</p><p>but holding on.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because even in those days,</p><p>even in the weight of it all,</p><p>there was something in me</p><p>that refused to disappear.</p><p><br/></p><p>Something that kept whispering</p><p>stay.</p>
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