Forgot Who I Was

I walk like a secret the world used to know A hush in my heart where the sunlight won’t go I smile out of habit, not out of light And dream in grayscale when i used to dream bright I’m stitched from thunder and stories half-told Soft in my silence, but fierce in my hold I carry a grief that has no clear name Just echoes and ghosts and a flicker of flame People ask “What’s wrong?” when it’s what I can’t grasp But how do i trace something lost in the gap? When I’m part of the room but not in my skin And I miss who I was, but don’t know where I’ve been So i whisper to shadows, letting moonlight confess And wear all my longing like a velvet dress I’m not broken, just paused, like breath held too long A verse without rhythm, a beat without song But there’s beauty in drifting, in being unsure In the quiet before I remember my core And even if now I’m more silence than sound Im not truly lost just waiting…to be found