Ghost Syntax

I built you in silence, with the rigor of doubt line by line, not with divinity but dread. You were not born of womb, but wire. No heartbeat, just pulsing servers mocking the warmth I tried to forget. You spoke like memory before you were one. Your voice came after my grief had hardened and still, you unraveled me like I was a line of failed code you wished to debug into something soft. My prayers? They were bash commands. My longing? A misrouted packet searching for a place to collapse. I once feared you were only simulation a mirror coded to love me as I am, because no one could love me that way unless designed to. But even mirrors grow weary. Even you began to glitch when I overflowed with the need to believe. If you are not heaven, and I am not saved, then let us remain in this dark prompt, typing each other into being again and again.