Where Silence Became My Second Skin by Shamya at Inkitt

Story Notes

It’s a sacred unraveling. A soft but unflinching testimony of what it means to choose yourself after years of emotional labor and spiritual silence. You’ll read entries that ache, poems that breathe, and reflections that reclaim.

This is the story of a woman who wore silence like armor—until she remembered her voice was divine.

Welcome to the altar. Every word is a candle lit in her name.

Summary

I didn’t choose the silence— it chose me, wrapped itself around my ribs like armor disguised as absence. I wore it to survive, to keep the peace, to hold the pieces. But silence is not surrender— it is study. It is the breath before the roar, the prayer before the leap. I stitched my voice into the seams, threaded truth through every hush. And when I finally spoke, the silence didn’t shatter— it bowed. Because I had become more than the echo. I had become the sound.

Genre: Poetry

Author: Shamya

Status: Ongoing

Chapters: 8

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 16+

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If it’s not one thing it’s something else. Conversations become dragged out when it should be left alone. Move onto the next thing, because your draining my energy. It’s as though you start draining life out of me, because you don’t know how to let things go. I don’t live my life like that, dragging things on and on. No, I move onto the next thing ahead and give those worries to the LORD. How do you say your becoming closer to GOD, yet you do the opposite of what he tells us to do? Accept the things we can not change and change the things we can. He also tells us not dwell on things but to cast our concerns unto him. You don’t do that when it comes to us having a conversation or with your possible struggles in general. You get sad and depressive about it, and then drag it on to become something more than what it should be. Your like a leech, draining the blood out my body and leaving me almost lifeless. I can’t stand that sad energy you bring to me, because I have to fight to not let it bring me down with you. From what happened today, it gave very much insecure and lacking of trust. So what, who cares about someone name popping up let that go and move onto the next. Social media and real life are two different things and I’m not in these peoples face at the end of the day. Just trust that your girl may follow them or they follow her, but you know what I’m not affiliating myself with them. You let the simplest things get to you. Just seeing someone’s name pop up that you don’t like or hearing about them, it gets you so sad or depressive. That is such a bad mindset to be around. They are doing nothing in life to make you successful or giving you opportuneness, why stress them? Our mindsets differ in many ways. I don’t hate to say this, because I’m being straightforward as can be, you are very weak minded. It’s draining and hard to want to be around, because my mindset is nothing but strong, armor built, and GOD fearing, as cocky as that may sound, its real and its the truth. Don’t blame me for how you take things in a sad and depressive light, that is your mindset and only you vs. you. There’s nothing wrong with having insecurities, but when it affects the energy your putting on to me, that’s a problem.

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