#quietly
How much of "WE",
Is the real "ME"?
How much of "ME",
I'm not?
I became
so "WE"
That
I forgot
To be "ME"
It happens
Apr 1
Apr 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM UTC
Screaming loud kills the silence,
but screaming quietly kills the soul.
And I have lived between the two
a trembling voice, caught in the throat of twilight.
The world rewards the noise,
the thunder, the visible pain.
But who listens to the whisper
that bleeds behind the eyes,
to the soft collapse of faith
when no one’s looking?
I have swallowed storms to keep others dry, turned my heart into a quiet church where prayers go unanswered but still, I kneel.
Some nights I scream without sound
the walls know my language,
the air folds around my grief
like an old, familiar coat.
Screaming loud kills the silence,
but screaming quietly kills the soul.
So I stand between echo and emptiness,
learning at last
that survival has its own tone
neither loud nor quiet,
but sacred.
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM UTC
I wish I could cry it out
but instead I cry inside
There tears are flowing
and they drown my mind.
L.C.
Jul 3, 2025
Jul 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM UTC
When things break
Noise generates
But when heart breaks
It doesn't
That's the difference
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022 at 12:03 AM UTC
__𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐,
𝚁𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙸’𝚖 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗.
𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚕𝚢,
𝙾𝚛 𝚊 𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚏𝚊𝚛𝚎.
𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙸 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜, 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜,
𝙾𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎...
𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.__
Feb 20, 2021
Feb 20, 2021 at 4:02 PM UTC
The stars look crueler
As they watch you die
Beneath their light.
There are too many of them in the sky
With too much hate filling their eyes
They've seen hundreds of you before
They will see
Hundreds more
You think you deserve to be here
You've been praying quietly
These past few years.
You think you can hear them
Whispering about you
Above you
They knew you'd never make it
You know you don't belong
You know this mountain will be
Just as cold
Just as lonely
In two hundred years
As it is tonight
Finding warmth in a broken body
Found dead
By light
There are too many stars in the sky
With too much hate filling their eyes
They've seen hundreds of you before
They will see
Hundreds more
Did your family know you went terminal
When you booked that flight?
The way they held you as you said goodbye
You think they just might
You wish you could call home
With your last dying breath
And tell them you'll be gone
Someone finally chose your death
But that call will come
From an unknown number
From a voice too rough
Calling on a night
With too many stars
Filling up your sky
And from then on
Your sister wears a smile
That says she just wants to die
Dec 21, 2020
Dec 21, 2020 at 7:13 PM UTC
You built me a casket that was too small and expected I would accept it quietly.
-t.s.
Nov 29, 2019
Nov 29, 2019 at 12:18 AM UTC
Thimble and needle hear
my words
you're too busy these days
to love
I've followed you through
and through
the toughest patches of life
and now my thread
has grown too thin
and we'll never survive
never survive never survive
the stitching of our hearts
Paper, rock and scissors
needles, pins and threader
rulers of horror measure
the terror of my nightmare
as I watch the needle
of your busy work pierce
the tissue of my heart
I'll never survive
never survive the sowing
of the madness
that's your mind
:: 04-21-2018 ::
Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 9:55 PM UTC
I wake up tired of the sounds and sights and feelings of me
And being is a chore and believing is weak
In the face of my hate for the reflection I see
Not a single thing with which to agree
And that's fine
And this is sad
And I hurt
Quietly
But I scream behind this screen
With letters filled with grief
At least the writings good
Or so I'd like to think
A lie that I could take something so horrid
And give it a pretty face
Could just be ****
I'll sink with this ship
I'll learn my place
Quietly
So I hope the water is warm when it fills my lungs
And I hope I don't bother when I finally succumb
I'll do my best to leave how I lived
So don't break the streak of absentmindedness
While I cease to exist
Quietly
Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 11:36 PM UTC
I need to know
Or else I'm afraid, that I must go
Quietly into this good night
Because not knowing
Of this so and so
Destroys my heart and plagues my mind
Every... Single... Time....
Apr 18, 2017
Apr 18, 2017 at 10:26 AM UTC
Usually
Invisibility is something you see
On a TV
Ironically
But the truth of the matter
Is that if you look at her
Sitting there quietly
Just watching society
Carry on with it's creation
Not joining the conversation
You may notice
You need to refocus
To make visible
Those things that are not
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 10:48 PM UTC
It is an Indian midnight,
Here it descends so quietly,
But now it is here so quickly,
So sonorous is the zeroth hour,
But none will listen to its music,
Hear the crickets breaking the silence,
In the end, it's midnight.
Apr 8, 2016
Apr 8, 2016 at 2:29 PM UTC
Tip toe quietly on yout feet
Don't you dare you miss a beat
Make around the floor-set traps
Wide awake as the rest of the world naps
Creak the door open just a slight
Enough to sneak away into the night
Ignore the clatter of bottles and breaths
Soon enough they'll be just deaths
Climb the barrier that separates care
For that courage resides somewhere
Tip toe quietly on your feet
Don't you dare you skip a beat
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 12:46 PM UTC
In the darkness
In the quietness
My voice spoke in the wind of winter
In the midst of the air
My breath living in some place quietly
In the blue sky
The water flowing to the earth
In the grey sky
The black smoke return to the sky
The stars shine in the midst of darkness
The stars will be lost again
When the black fade.
Dec 12, 2015
Dec 12, 2015 at 2:10 AM UTC
Use me,
Abuse me,
Don't look at me,
Just through me.
Force yourself
Ontop of me,
Then let me grieve
Quietly.
I lay there crying,
Soaking the sheet,
The uneasiness within me
Starts to repeat.
Hit me,
Quit me,
Don't love me,
Don't lust me.
Break me,
Shake me,
For God's sake,
Heartbreak me.
Tell me when it's over,
Tell me when you're done,
And as long as I'm crying,
Just know that you have won.
My body's weak;
You make it weaker,
But you keep taking,
You push deeper.
And then at once,
You're up and gone,
They ask for a description,
I tell them, *"the Devil's spawn".
Aug 13, 2015
Aug 13, 2015 at 9:14 PM UTC
My heart breaks
Quietly
Miles away
As you fall asleep
Without me
Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 1:22 AM UTC
The first kid was a rat. Oh he was so crude and mean. He said:
"Make her eat that!" and pointed to dirt-drenched, ice cream.
The second kid was a sucker for shows. He laughed and such a stupid pose.
But girls have power too ya know.
Girls tend to be smart, and...oh no...
She scooped the food, tears down her eyes, bidding her last goodbyes. Up it went, leaving no traces....
Up to the sky! "Wham!" Into their faces. She laughed and ran on full speed. Jumped a bush and climbed a tree.
"She's like a squirrel!" The first boy yelled.
"Well get up there and push her down!"
The second boy was looking high.
The girl giggled and mocked "So boys do cry."
The second boy ran off, and chickened out.
The first boy said," I can get you no doubt!"
He hopped and hopped and grasped the first branch, then he swung and swung, but couldn't touch the next.
While he struggled so hard the girl, quietly climbed down.
He'd never figure, she was on the other side, on the ground.
She slowly tipped away and went on, back home.
The boys best learn their lessons, and leave this girl alone
Apr 27, 2014
Apr 27, 2014 at 6:49 PM UTC