Spoken Word

Voices from the Quiet

The poems as they were meant to land — in the air, in the body, in the room.

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It hurts most when you realize you were just a lesson in someone else's story.

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I was loyal to a lie you never even tried to make true.

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Some doors open with grief. Some open with love. The cruelest ones open with both.

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She doesn't fear loneliness; what she fears is the shallow warmth of a world that's forgotten how to feel.

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Time peels back the layers of memory, and what once felt innocent now echoes with shadows.

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Intro

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Sometimes we grieve the living—the friends we've lost to silence, the loves we outgrew, the parts of ourselves we thought would be forever.

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Time Doesn't Always Heal

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You Don't Miss

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I'll Be Okay

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He's the one who holds it all together while quietly unraveling inside, burdened by the weight of a heart that carries too much and a voice that rarely speaks of it.

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The world sees his smile and thinks they know him, but they don't see the storms he hides, the quiet ache to be something real in a world that only asks him to shine.

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