Stillness

What trembles in the air, cloaked in whispers of yester labors.

Echoes trap dreams in a-net of silence, centuries melt, mothballs fade.

Shadows peel layer upon layer, influenced by paths that light forgot.

The second hand holds a mirror, manufacturing the absent. Reflecting nonexistent reality.

Listen to the kinetics. Are we vessels or empty shells washed ashore?

Your name was inked beneath arcs of alien graphite; it never belonged here.

Reaching, as skeletal italic fonts cling to conceptual friends.

Name any satisfaction; inside an enzyme, spawned only from fragmented jests.

Perhaps, it unfolds with the unfurling.