The Clarity Endured Abyss

Fleeting thoughts, whispering like shadows of storms,
once, there were echoes of laughter in the empty rooms,
voices growing fainter, like a ship lost in fog.

Do you remember the staircase that led to nowhere?
Each step a fragment of another time,
another life perhaps.

"The horizon whispered secrets, within the folds of the remembered sea,
a vastness that held the shards of forgotten dreams."

"A journey of a thousand miles...” it began,
the phrase carved in an age-old desk,
splintering in the dim light.