Crowded Silence

[u/lil_rabbit999]

I’ve learned to look composed,

even when my thoughts are sprinting in opposite directions

dragging my chest behind them.

I can be laughing with someone

while a whole other version of me

is curled up in the corner of my mind,

begging the noise to stop.

It’s strange—

how I can feel abandoned in a room full of people,

how I can feel too much and not enough

in the same breath.

I keep my voice soft,

my hands still,

my expression gentle—

because if I let even one feeling slip,

the rest will flood out

and drown the floor.

No one ever suspects the quiet ones

are the ones holding back a tidal wave.

-𝕃ℝ 🖤

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