They told me I was just forgetting,
But I wasn’t.
I buried pieces of myself
In corners where light never reached.

The shadows I wore
Had faces,
Whispers, touches.
The weight of silence too heavy to lift.

Each night, my skin
Held the echoes of things
Too broken to remember,
Too cruel to forget.

I learned to walk without seeing,
To speak without words,
To smile with the ache of ghosts
Dancing in the dark corners of my mind.

I didn’t choose to forget,
But my body carried the story.
It remembers,
What my mind keeps trying to erase.

I am both whole and shattered,
Pieces sewn together by a will
That refuses to surrender,
Even when it trembles in the wake of the past.