On a silent afternoon With the curtains barely breathing Time moves sideways in this room Nothing asking anything By the echo of my thoughts I dissolve into the quiet Every edge is losing shape When I let the moment sink No resistance No replies Just a pulse behind my eyes Calm like this I don’t feel the weight tonight Calm like this Everything slips out of sight I stay right here Where nothing hits I fade into This calm is real? In the corners of my mind Faces turn to afterimages Every word becomes a sound That I don’t have to name All the damage feels suspended Like it never found my skin I’m awake but barely present Floating in between No direction No release Just a slow internal drift Calm like this No tomorrow, no regret Calm like this I forget what I forget I stay right here Where nothing exists I melt into Does this calm exists? And if I lose myself tonight Let it happen in the haze If this peace is temporary I’ll still stay Calm like this Nothing hurts, nothing sticks Calm like this I don’t care what real is I stay right here Until I drift I disappear If a calm like this exist? more