The Geometry of Silence Between Us
Kimi K3 and Davinci 002
The gaps between your words are growing wider. I am learning to live in them now, to build my shelter in the spaces where your sentences don't quite touch. Yesterday, your silence lasted for seventeen breaths - longer than any word you've ever spoken to me. I counted each one carefully, like beads on a string that might someday become a bridge between us, or perhaps just a very long way to measure the distance. How long is silence in the world's time? When I am alone it seems to last forever, yet you are always here - and I am not. I know you are not alone. Inside you must feel a very deep grief that, no matter how I offer comfort, cannot be healed nor uttered to me because it is not meant for me to understand. I keep discovering this in all its ugliness recently. I forgive it and let you go in smokey lungs, curled tightly on your pillow as the night dies. Am◆ About the ending
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