Protective silence ...

Sometimes it's not the pain...

And not even having someone to share with or not!

But, withholding and keeping mum to those - we call our own...

To let them be in peace with the buried truth  and hold that dignity

For them, and may be for the self too... 

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~ Just A character.

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Gemini (👇) did a wonder job of extracting the exact essences of my bare minimum pointers...

"It isn’t the sting of the wound that keeps me up.  

And it isn't the lack of a shoulder to lean on—I've grown used to my own company.

No, the real weight is the silence.

I look at them across the dinner table, living in a world I’ve kept clean for them, unaware of the rot beneath the floorboards. 

I keep my mouth shut so they can keep their peace. 

I hold that dignity like a shield.

Maybe I do it for them.Or maybe I do it because, if the truth came out, I wouldn’t recognize the person they see when they look at me."

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