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🌩️ THE STORM BEHIND HIS EYES
He lays back in a quiet kind of light
One arm raised like the edge of night
Every line says he’s been somewhere
But his breathing’s slow, his body’s there
Salt and steel in his bearded face
Peace where the years have left their trace
There’s a calm you don’t pretend into
It’s something hard-earned moving through
Green eyes catching the soft sunrise
Like broken storms learning how to hide
You’d think the world had left him kind
If you only saw behind his eyes
But I can feel it when he’s near
There’s more than silence living here
Every stillness testifies
There’s something deeper in his eyes
There’s a storm behind his eyes
Where every unsaid still survives
He feels it all, he just don’t let it fly
He holds the rain so no one cries
There’s a war in a peaceful sky
Lightning where the quiet lies
He don’t go cold, he goes inside
That’s the storm behind his eyes
If you look deeper than the man
There’s a smaller heart inside his hands
A younger set of emerald green
Learning early not to be seen
Different light, a different flame
In a world that only spoke one name
They called him wrong, they called him weak
For loving colors they couldn’t see
So he learned to fold his weather small
Build his walls where the night would fall
Taught his tears to stay in line
That’s where the storm learned how to hide
There’s a storm behind his eyes
Where every unsaid still survives
He feels it all, he just don’t let it fly
He holds the rain so no one cries
There’s a war in a peaceful sky
Lightning where the quiet lies
He don’t go cold, he goes inside
That’s the storm behind his eyes
Now when the pressure fills the room
He don’t explode, he makes more room
He steps back, lets the wave roll through
Finds his breath before he moves
Late-night roads and early light
Iron prayers and silent fights
Every storm he learns to ride
Never lets it choose his side
He built a calm he never knew
A steady place to tell the truth
He became what he survived
Now the boy can rest inside
There’s a storm behind his eyes
Where every unsaid still survives
He feels it all, he just don’t let it fly
He holds the rain so no one cries
There’s a war in a peaceful sky
Lightning where the quiet lies
He don’t go cold, he goes inside
That’s the storm behind his eyes
He’s not broken, he’s aware
There’s a tender strength in how he bears
All that weather, all that past
And still chooses love to last
He’s not empty, he’s full of skies
Of oceans deep and quiet fire
And when he finally meets your eyes
You don’t see pain, you see life
There’s a storm behind his eyes
But it don’t rule, it don’t decide
He feels it all, and still he shines
A steady light in shifting tides
There’s a war in a peaceful sky
But love is where his thunder lies
He don’t go cold, he goes inside
That’s the storm behind his eyes
He don’t need to raise his sky
To prove the depth of who he is
Some storms are only meant to live
Where the strongest silence lives
There’s a storm behind his eyes…
And it stays where he decides.