Acoustic Shadows
Silence answers before I ask
only silence answering my fear
something is near but never fully arrives
moving through spaces I cannot name
I don’t know what you are
but you know me too well
like hearing a name through a closed door I cannot open
your presence reaches me late
like a truth delayed in the body
you stand where certainty should be
yet I only catch fragments of you
half-formed, shifting without sound
never staying long enough to confirm
even your shape feels borrowed from distance
returning differently each time
I reach for what you are becoming
but meaning keeps slipping past me
and still you remain everywhere
without ever arriving fully
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