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This quiet is borrowed and not truly mine
A pause slipped between one bell and the next chime
Nothing demands me and nothing is loud
Yet my mind still drifts
Half sea and half ground
I walk without purpose and feel the sway
Like land remembered after years away
No storms to outrun
No course to defend
Just time that begins without asking to end
I do not need to fill it or explain
This silence will pass like a soft brief rain
Soon calendars tighten and weeks take their shape
And I will miss this uncluttered escape
So I sit with the stillness
Neither brave nor wise
Not chasing outcomes
Not fixing my life
Just breathing the gift before it is spent
This borrowed quiet and briefly lent
— 21/01/26