Kim V. Poetry

The night has a deafening silence
But my mind is just too loud.

Loud with memories,
And sadness.

Loud with anger
And things I should’ve let go.

Louder
And louder still.

I cringe at moments
I now wish hadn’t happened.

Argue with myself in the mirror
With words, I should’ve said.

I find that I still hide pain with a smile,
And laugh away all of the tears.

Because I didn’t want the world
To see,
The broken-hearted person
I had come to be.

But, somehow, you broke through
The noise.

You seemed to calm
All of the screaming voices
In my head.

You accepted my shadows
And loved them as your own.

You loved my demons
And all of my pain.

You took the time
To show me,
That they just won’t go away.

For you called them my strength,
From which to pull
Inspiration from.
From where my power grows inside.

And so I did,
And so I have.

For now, I see a future
Grown in the sunlight.
When my past was dark
And desiccated.

Because you came into my life
Like a wildfire,
Razed the field
From which my heartbreak
Was seeded in.

You opened my eyes
And made me see,
That my beginning lies
Not in the darkest valleys
Of my mind
But, in your arms
And in the light of the sun,
Instead.

©️KVP
Art: “The End?” James Suret
Website: https://www.artstation.com/zerojs
Song: “Stand by Me,” Kit Theory
Prompt:
“Hide pain with a smile.”
“The night has a deafening silence, but my mind is just too loud.”#betweenlinesandverses @betweenlinesandverses