The Voice Within

I am a heartbeat
that has a sound often lost
amid the shouts and screams,
which ring out from so many sources
come with their pains into my head.

Yet the echoes of my throbbing
still linger and refuse to be silence
as I remain that voice within
every searching for my place
among all the masks that exists.

And even when the roar
rises from so many mouths,
even when machines and other sources
smother the world for attention
for me I continue to ring my inner chime
because it is part of who I really am,
so share it to be sure
that I don’t get lost while treading water
in that sea called humanity.

It’s enough at times to know
how what lies in my essence
is what I try to express,
sometimes with embellishments,
which convey some diversity of me,
but always so what is seen
really will end up being what I am.