Whispers of a Silent Soul
A journey through pain, hope, and healing

In the quiet corners of midnight,
When the world sleeps and my soul wakes,
I hear the whispers — soft, aching, raw.
They don’t shout. They don’t cry.
They breathe in silence.
These are not words I speak.
They are stories etched into the fabric of my being.
Scars that sing in the moonlight.
Memories that float like forgotten feathers in the wind.
There was a time I danced in the rain,
Not because it was poetic,
But because no one could see the tears.
My silence was not peace —
It was the storm that no one cared to notice.
Every smile I wore was a stitch
Holding together pieces of a heart
That shattered quietly,
Like glass falling on cotton.
I wrote my pain in invisible ink.
You could only read it
If you truly looked into my eyes
When I wasn’t smiling.
But there was always a voice inside —
Faint, flickering, fragile.
It whispered:
"Keep going. Even if no one sees. Even if no one stays."
That voice became my poetry.
---
The nights were my refuge,
The moon my confidant.
It knew the truth beneath my laughter,
The ache beneath my calm.
There were days I couldn't breathe,
Yet I stood.
There were nights I wanted to disappear,
Yet I wrote.
And in those words, I found pieces of me
I thought were lost forever.
Every poem,
Every line,
Every silent scream
Brought me one step closer to healing.
I stitched together broken verses
And created a quilt of survival.
---
This is not just poetry.
This is therapy.
This is survival.
This is how I fought without fists.
How I screamed without sound.
How I stood, again and again,
Even when I was sure I couldn’t.
My soul —
Cracked, bruised, but breathing —
Now shines not despite the darkness,
But because of it.
Because I’ve learned that the deepest wounds
Grow the strongest flowers.
That the loneliest nights
Give birth to the brightest dawns.
And though I am not whole,
I am real.
---
So when you read these words,
Know that they are not just rhymes.
They are pieces of a person
Who refused to give up.
A voice once silenced,
Now singing —
Not to impress,
But to survive.
These are the
Whispers of a Silent Soul.
---
But healing is not loud.
It does not arrive with trumpets or applause.
It comes quietly —
Like dawn after a stormy night.
Soft, hesitant, yet sure.
I learned to celebrate the smallest wins.
Waking up.
Getting out of bed.
Writing one honest line.
And even on days when I slipped back into silence,
I honored myself for surviving.
---
There is a strange kind of beauty in broken things.
A vase, cracked but glowing from within.
A heart, bruised but still beating.
I met people along the way —
Some who stayed,
Some who left scars,
Some who taught me how to love myself.
They became verses in my eternal poem,
Teaching me the power of words —
Not just to hurt,
But to heal.
---
Now when I write,
It’s not just about pain.
It’s about rising.
It’s about the light I see now
That once felt impossible.
Each poem I share
Is a seed I plant in someone else’s darkness —
Hoping it will bloom,
Even if I never see it grow.
Because poetry is not just mine.
It belongs to every silent soul
That has felt unseen, unheard,
Unloved.
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So if you’re reading this,
Know this truth:
You matter.
You are not alone.
You are someone’s favorite line
In a world full of noise.
Speak your truth.
Write your pain.
Sing your silence.
Let the world hear
your whispers too.
And now, I walk differently —
Not faster, not stronger,
But more aware.
Of the cracks in the pavement,
The soft hush of the wind,
The quiet ways the universe speaks.
I no longer fear silence.
I embrace it like an old friend.
Because silence, too, has a language.
And within it,
I’ve heard the loudest truths.
---
Some nights still ache.
Memories still echo.
But I’ve made peace with the past.
It shaped me —
But it does not own me.
Now, I write not just for survival,
But to celebrate.
The words once soaked in sorrow
Now bloom in purpose.
---
A soul once broken,
Now stitched with golden lines.
Like Kintsugi —
The art of healing with beauty.
My poem ends,
But the journey does not.
It continues in every heart it touches,
In every whisper it awakens.
---
So let this be your sign.
Your pain is real.
Your voice is valid.
Your story deserves light.
Don’t wait for perfect words —
Write your truth now.
The world is waiting to listen.
About the Creator
Misbah
Collector of whispers, weaver of shadows. I write for those who feel unseen, for moments that vanish like smoke. My words are maps to places you can’t return from


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