Creaks

Name: The Healing Bundle
Brand: Faith & Prose
SKU: wpp9e
Price: 39.99 USD
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Jonathan Valania

*This poem explores themes of emotional abuse, longing, and unresolved trauma. Some readers may find it triggering. Please read gently and with care

Sometimes the floorboards creak,

and I wonder—ever so softly—

if it’s the ghost of you passing through.

Sometimes the wind slips in,

threading itself through the open window,

and I hear your voice

like a hush in the rafters,

nudging me the way you used to.

That was before the breaking,

before the ache settled in the walls.

Resentment—

what a bitter-tasting word

for something I never meant to grow.

I speak aloud in the dark

as if the silence might soften,

as if it might return your voice

instead of this ache that echoes back.

I don’t dial your number—

a court order cages that urge.

You drew that line with your own hands,

called it love

while it left bruises.

Still, I leave the door unlocked each night,

just maybe—

maybe—

you’ll return

like a whisper,

just once more.

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