She Who Sings Beyond the Wound

Her silence was never empty.
It was wovenn
of forgotten languages,
of notes that once wept in light.

She did not speak.
She resonated.
Like sea-song in a shattered shell,
like moonlight humming through bone.

The voice they gave her was a cage.
polished, precise,
but hollow.
She wore it like a ghost wears skin.
They thought her quiet.
They never heard the tremor beneath.

But in her chest...
a cathedral of aching wind.
A siren’s prayer
spun from shadow and starlight.
The dream of a sound
not yet born.

She does not scream.
She does not shatter.
She glows.

And somewhere between every heartbeat,
she sings,
not with a voice they gave,
but with the one she kept hidden
in the folds of her longing.

An echo of who she truly is,
infinite, aching, free.