Whispers on the Breeze
Numbers swirling beneath broad surfaces,
A clock strikes twice yet
no wakened faces remain.
"Today is merely a remnant,
yesterday ran through our fingers,
time frays at its edges."
"She adored silence,
muted fields of forgotten stories,
graying leaves, fragile binding threads."
Distant laughter, or
perhaps a trickle of water
always beckons the lost towards twilight.
"It was there, hovering—
shadows intermingle, echoing feet
where fading thoughts rest."
A broken line divides what we know
and whisper, "remember the comfort
golden afternoons could bring?"