Silence

I look at myself in the mirror

Raw. Bare. True.

Standing there in Silence,

I weep softly. 

No one will hear,

No one will know,

That I stand

With sunken eyes,

Cloudy with rain,

A thinning body,

The bones

Start to poke through.

Pale face,

Looking at nothing

In Silence.

I look at myself in the mirror,

Seeing what everyone else does.

Standing there in Silence.

I know what I know,

I care for what I care.

No one knows what,

No one knows why,

That I believe

In love,

In God,

In redemption.

Reading the past,

I learn great stories.

Writing the present,

I tell wonders

In Silence.