My pain is different
I feel it in my heart
I feel it in my head
I feel it in my joints and bones
But it doesn’t just hurt
It burns
It shatters
It takes away my breath
But often
it’s just emptiness
a hollow
in my soul
A different kind of burn
It materializes into tears
because
Rarely
i am strong enough to scream

Your smile destroyed my world
It shredded it into pieces
You demolished all my beliefs
Obliterating everything I knew
But my world was defined by darkness
It was sorrowful
And you saved me
from my gloom
With your smile
A smile I didn’t even know I needed
to rescue me from my
own existence