Weightless Hush: A Spoken Sonnet

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“Not everything buried is gone. Some things root.”

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Weightless Hush: A Spoken Sonnet

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A meditation on fire, silence, and becoming

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Beneath the weightless hush of twilight’s breath,<br>

Where root and ruin tangle in the loam,<br>

The earth forgets the lineage of death—<br>

And dreams in seeds of things it calls its own.<br><br>

A spark endures where silence breaks like light,<br>

In eyes that hold the echo of the flame.<br>

Though ash may veil the stars from mortal sight,<br>

Each whispered wish still dares to sign its name.<br><br>

Not born to last, yet endless in its yearning,<br>

The soul, unshackled, climbs what time corrodes.<br>

In every wound, the ember of returning,<br>

A fire fed not by flame, but by the road.<br><br>

So wander not to end, but to become—<br>

A voice, a scar, a sky where all came from.

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