Etched Letters

Hushed Voices was always about the words that my heart gulped in, left with no way out. Emotions that stayed hidden for a while, because all that time it felt like the world around would feel those were insignificant. What about these words, about me, would be amusing enough for the world to stop the ticking clocks, even for just a second, and take a glance? What in this entire world would be enough? Would I ever be enough? I'd question myself over and over again, and refrain from saying anything even when words, became screams, filled to the brim in my heart. 

Maybe it was the wind that one day whispered if it's significant enough to you, why do you think it wouldn't be significant enough to at least one other soul? I began to write and then I realized writing is never personal. It never can be. Your screams, which look like words, can become the screams of someone else who couldn't find the right words for themselves. Your whispers could put someone at ease. Your joy could make someone smile. And your tears can save someone theirs. Words are never personal, no matter how personal you try to make them. 

So, put your heart out there and be fearless. Because that is what I did. And I don't regret one bit of it. 

I will let my heart speak till it is content, and I hope you all stay with me. I hope it speaks to you in more ways than one, I hope it lets you wonder. 

If Hushed Voices are the sounds my heart makes hoping that the world leans in to listen, Etched letters are replies to some voices that made their way into my heart. Words that changed my being, words that felt like magic, like daggers, like medicine, like everything and nothing at the same time. If these words were flowers, Etched letters is the lingering scent they left behind. It is my attempt at capturing and freezing that for eternity as I put it in words. 

because 

It is at times like these,
Times when words roll out of my heart,

When words feel unstoppable and free,
That's when I feel the most alive. 

I hope you'd feel that too. 



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