I knelt where the night
Forgot my name
And the floor beneath me
Softened into water
A single tear fell
Quiet as a confession
And the room rippled
As if the world itself
Had been waiting to break
Soon there was a pool
Clear enough to see
Every version of myself
I tried to abandon
Faces drifting like pale moons
Beneath the surface
I cupped the water
But it slipped through my fingers
Faithful only to gravity
Never to my grasp
Still I stayed
Watching the pool widen
Watching it learn the shape
Of my silence
And in its trembling mirror
I finally understood
Some sorrows don’t drown you
They gather at your feet
Asking only to be seen
Before they let you go