What the Silence Knew

The air thinned the moment you walked in, like the room forgot how to breathe.

My eyes met yours, and suddenly I could finally see.

My pulse stuttered, searching for a rhythm it didn’t understand,

as if your presence rewrote the beat inside my chest.

I watched your every move, like I was drawn in too deep,

letting it take me under before I could think to fight it.

The world fell away the moment I heard you laugh,

and somehow everything that mattered lived inside that sound.

Once upon a time, it felt like a story I wasn’t meant to touch,

and I forgot every ending I’d ever learned to tell myself.

Smoke cleared, illusions slipping from everything I thought I knew,

and your truth stood steady—leaving nothing left to hide.