06/08/2025
FEATURE |
When the Heart Breaks, the Soul Listens.
Indeed, silence follows heartbreak. It does not dominate an empty room rather, it's the silence that resides within you, echoing in the spaces between various thoughts and memories. This heart is not broken with loud tears, but the screaming silence that hangs around you as you find yourself wondering how something once so bubbly could be now so hollow.
There comes heartbreak that cannot only be attached to love stories. It can also happen because some trust ends, some dream fades, or occasionally, things suddenly change what once seemed permanent. It is a soft goodbye, a dimming heat, and it dawns on one that something which was greatly valued is now but a memory.
There are no rules for the way one grieves in heartbreak. Some carry it in their eyes, others within silence. It can either mean that you did beautiful music, whether caused by the way you flipped through old photographs, or how long you've lain staring at the ceiling in the dead of night. And though no one else can see the pieces, the one feeling them knows exactly where the cracks are.
Yet within this affliction, there is something rather strangely powerful.
Heartbreak teaches resilience. The forces make it slower; it introspects; it reminds us that even at the most painful endings, we still exist.
✍️Shyluck Alindog
