Displacement

The remnants remain.

Cities once teeming, now shadows.

Walls hold secrets, beneath silent stones.

Forgotten names linger on tongues, choking.

Ink fades.

Ghosts of stories linger.

Passages to nowhere, veiled in dust.

Letters transform to markings, become eroded.

Sky above, earth below, all unchanged.

A footstep, then none.

Silence, an echo of absence.