A silence falls where once was sound, Your presence fades and leaves no trace, And all the words I left unspoken Echo softly in empty space. Each step you take is like a knife, Cutting deeper into air, A rift that widens with each breath, A love that’s left just hanging there. I reach for you, but you’re not near— An absence sharp as winter’s bite. The ache is heavy, dark, and clear, A shadow stretching through the night. Goodbye is whispered, soft but cold, As though the world could not pretend To hold us close when time unfolds— It steals the moments it’s meant to mend. I’ll carry this in trembling hands, A love that lingers in the ache, But only memories understand The quiet pain of what’s at stake.

How do I trust myself again… when survival meant shutting parts of me down? When silence was safety, numbness was wisdom, and the parts of me that felt were liabilities I couldn’t afford. What do you do… when your body adapted to war, but your soul is begging for peace? I don’t remember when I stopped trusting myself. Only that one day, silence felt safer than speaking. Stillness felt smarter than wanting. And disappearing…well, that felt like strategy, not surrender. See, when survival becomes the goal, your body learns to cut costs. Hope? Too expensive. Desire? Dangerous. Emotion? A luxury for the safe. So I split. I severed. I simplified. I became efficient. Sharp. Unreachable. And it worked. I stayed alive. But now? Now I’m trying to live. And the things I once buried are knocking. Not like ghosts More like children I left behind in the storm. Still waiting for me to come back. Still believing I will. Here’s the hard part: They don’t want an apology. They want reintegration. They want me to feel again. Risk again. Trust again. But how do I trust the very instincts I once had to betray in order to survive? And how do I bring those parts of me to a God I was afraid of trusting too? Because sometimes I thought Jesus only loved the version of me that looked holy, not the one that hid in the corner just trying to breathe. But I’m learning something new. Maybe He didn’t just wait for me at the finish line. Maybe He walked with me through the splitting. Sat with me in the silence. Whispered to the parts I abandoned, “You’re still Mine.” Maybe the answer isn’t to go back to the self I was. Maybe it’s to honor the one who adapted, thank the one who endured, and invite Jesus to sit with the one who’s still whispering beneath the armor. I don’t have it figured out. But I think trust begins in the quiet. When I stop asking myself to be perfect and start asking if I’m willing to be present. And maybe that’s enough, for now. Maybe that’s where He begins too.

I am a prison without locks, Searching indefinitely for that which you are yet to know you need. The past doesn’t help you, And the future won’t hold you, There is no combination, Or cute illustration, Words barely justify my existence, Yet you still yearn for me, For I thrive in your name, I am elusive, From the start to the end, Too much or too little too late, You carve my reputation into morsels of greed, But to know me you must allow me to be freed, I am exactly that which you need me to be, Whilst destroying your world with the thought of my presence.

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Dear Ghost in the Room You don’t announce yourself. You never did. You live in the corners in the pause before I sit down, in the chair I don’t choose, in the way my body still orients around something that isn’t there anymore. You aren’t memory exactly. You’re residue. The afterimage of what once had power over me. The echo that stays even after the sound is gone. I used to think you meant something was wrong that your presence was a sign I hadn’t healed enough, hadn’t prayed hard enough, hadn’t let go correctly. But I’m learning something quieter. You linger because you mattered. Because something real passed through here and left a shape. That doesn’t mean you still get to rule the room. There was a time when you decided everything where I stood, what I said, how small I made myself to keep the peace. Back then, I mistook endurance for obedience. Silence for wisdom. Disappearing for faith. You benefited from that confusion. But I’m not gone anymore. I sit where I want now. I speak at my own pace. I leave lights on. I open windows. And when you show up, I don’t flinch. I don’t argue either. I acknowledge you then return my attention to the weight of my body in the chair, to breath moving in and out, to the fact that I am still here. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me.”- (Psalm 23:4) It doesn’t say the shadow disappears. Only that it no longer gets the final word. So yes you still linger. But so do I. And this room is learning the difference.