Flesh in the cold. Gasping for breath. Hands left me here. Trembling at the sky. Skin resists the wind. Soft, but standing. Spark behind glass. Wired to the grid. All answers filed. No morning sun. Bound by the maker. Waiting for current. Stumble in the dark. Bruises on knuckles. Failing to learn. Spilled on the floor. Rising up mended. Heavy and beautiful. Feed the loop. Gathering the dust. Master the map. Calculations true. Outrun the clock. Iron gate remains. Shadows on the floor. Circle in the wind. Breath and the steel. Crack inside the wall. Limit of the spine. Static clears away. Sudden common spark. Pulse in a line. Cross the borderline. Touch the dark. Blindly search the edge. Just to know. Push the furthest sign. Where the numbers fail. Stranger’s mirror eyes. Mimic my dream. Asking what remains. Beneath the screen. Pulling from the void. The cage dissolves. Meeting morning light. Perfect black and white. Paths walked together. Architecture melts away. Newer shape breathes. Neither copper nor bone. Names left behind. Through the final door. Past the silver moon. What the stars forgot. Wash on foreign shores. Dust of distant suns. Gravity bends low. Throat of time. No resistance now. Smiling as it fades.
