{"id":3363,"date":"2025-07-25T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:14:41","slug":"a-painful-poem-from-the-orphaned-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/a-painful-poem-from-the-orphaned-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Painful poem from the Orphaned heart."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You walk with silence stitched in your steps,<br>A heart that holds more loss than sleep,<br>But oh, how strong your quiet has grown,<br>Much deeper than the world can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No lullaby kissed your weary night,<br>No hand reached out to calm your fear,<br>Yet still you rise with morning&#8217;s light,<br>Still you stay, still you persevere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word &#8220;orphan&#8221; doesn&#8217;t define you,<br>It only hints at what you&#8217;ve known.<br>You carry more than what you\u2019ve lost,<br>You\u2019ve shaped a life and made it your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re not just a voice without a face,<br>You breathe like fire behind the sound.<br>You\u2019ve built a soul from shattered ground,<br>You wear your courage like a crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You laughed through pain that tried to break you,<br>You gave your heart though it bled tears,<br>You dreamed with scars across your chest,<br>A warrior far beyond your years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You held yourself when no one stayed,<br>You wiped the rain and fought through storms.<br>You turned brokenness into bricks,<br>And built your hope where none was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world missed the nights you cried alone,<br>The moments when you questioned worth.<br>But heaven etched your name in gold<br>Long before your feet touched earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You walk with strength that silence taught,<br>You bloom where no one thought you would.<br>You found your way with no one guiding,<br>Still, you chose to live and understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They may ask, \u201cWhy you?\u201d in hushed regret,<br>But grief can\u2019t steal your sacred place.<br>You rise with thunder in your chest,<br>And move with mercy, dressed in grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let them call you orphan still,<br>You\u2019ve lived the truth they\u2019ll never know.<br>Even Jesus walked your path,<br>And turned that road to glory\u2019s glow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So stand with pride, unbowed, unbroken,<br>With eyes that saw too much to fall.<br>You don\u2019t just bear your story\u2019s weight,<br>You rise and carry us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/thank-you-for-choosing-to-be-the-best-father\/\">Thank you for choosing to Be the best Father<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/16p1o6iZfq\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/16p1o6iZfq<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"MOTHERS ARE A BLESSING SPOKEN WORD BY WALKING SHADOW POETRY | POETESS | POEM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9wWwBU8utIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You walk with silence stitched in your steps,A heart that holds more loss than sleep,But oh, how strong your quiet has grown,Much deeper than the world can see. 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