18/01/2026
Is this real, or only an illusion?
The world races ahead, voices, vehicles, lives in fast-forward.
I remain still, watching from a distance.
With these limited eyes, I notice what goes unnoticed:
a glance that passes too quickly,
a silence that lingers longer than words.
People move around me,
yet I feel apart,
like a still figure in a flowing river.
Everything is here; noise and quiet, love and loss, movement and pause,
but I am somewhere in between,
neither fully present nor entirely absent.
~MS