Doré E. Frances
Why Wisdom Is Harder Than You Think
In Loving Memory of Those Gone Too Soon
We carry you in our hearts – in the quiet moments of dawn, in the stillness of the night, beneath starlit skies. You return in a melody, a familiar scent, a place that once held laughter. Though you are no longer here, you are never truly gone.
You are woven into everything.
Something Broke Inside Me
It didn’t end my story, however, it rewrote the lines. A silent fracture, etched in time. I walked away – still breathing, yet changed in ways unseen. A quiet ache replaced the light of all I might have been.
That moment stole a piece of me, left hollow where hope had lived. Now I move with unseen sorrow, with nothing more to give. I survived –
yet not untouched. I live –
yet not the same. A stillness lingers in my chest, a whisper wrapped in pain. No one sees the loss I bear –
a scar the world can’t find. Yet I remember …
when something broke deep inside.
Beneath My Silence
There are stories we tell out loud – and there are ones we carry quietly etched beneath the surface, waiting for the right moment to be heard.
This collection of poems was born from those quieter places –
where words once trembled behind closed lips, where pain and resilience lived side by side, and where healing began not with answers but honesty.
Beneath My Silence is a journey through grief, hope, meaning, and memory. It’s shaped by the echoes of my past and the wisdom of surviving it. Some poems emerged from sorrow, others from joy, but all are threads of a life deeply felt and deeply lived. These poems hold what I couldn’t say out loud. Thank you for listening.
Doré
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