morning folds itself
like paper grown too heavy,
and the light hesitates
to speak its own name.
I cross a breath
that belongs to no one,
a corridor without walls
where every step erases itself
before it lands.
Time —
that old tightrope walker —
slips off his line,
and falls
without falling,
without sound,
without end.
A voice —
or maybe its shadow —
tells me:
“Nothing is lost,
but nothing is found.”
I lean my ear
toward a silence
that breathes,
toward a word
that turns back
against itself,
like a mirror
refusing
its own reflection.
And I —
in this theatre without a stage —
search for a trace,
a thread,
an almost‑meaning,
but every slips
like water
that does not wet.
So I close my eyes —
not to see,
but to let approach
what trembles
at the edge of the real:
a glimmer,
a breath,
a presence
that will not speak its name.