Palms of Dew – When Light Fades into Nothingness

Palms of Dew – When Light Fades into Nothingness

I will leave… not as the absent depart, but as the universe extinguishes in the eye of longing, As time collapses into galaxies of silence, As stars fall without leaving a trace, I will leave behind a void that only an unspoken echo can fill.

And you will weep…Not as lovers weep, but as the sea splits apart searching for its lost shore, As towers crumble in the cities of the forgotten, As snow melts in the grip of the sun, Without anyone knowing when it vanished.

Tears will cast their shadow upon time, Rolling like runaway planets, Seeking an orbit they will never find, Washing away a sorrow that cannot be washed.

I will write my farewell poem…Not with ink, but with the tears of dawn as they wound the horizon, Upon the palms of dew, where words dissolve before they are spoken, Where letters burn before they are born, I will etch it with light… then breathe it into oblivion.

Dawn will have no color after me, Time will bleed its final pulse, And the sun will try to rise, only to find itself crucified upon the balconies of the horizon, Searching for its own shadow… upon the surface of water… and not finding it.

On the altar of the moon, I will leave my final voice, It will ascend—not as a cry, but as the gasp of the earth when it forgets its name, Not as sorrow, but as the shiver of the void realizing it is without meaning, It will not be death… but the dismantling of all limits of the possible, It will not be extinction… but an opening into an endless absence.

I will not return… yet I will not vanish. I will be a fracture in the light, An unseen whisper in the veins of time, I will be the voice that calls but is never heard, The question that is asked but never answered, The absent one who becomes the shadow of all that lives.

And when they ask about me… do not answer, Lift your gaze toward the horizon, Let them stare into the emptiness, So they may finally understand…That the departed was never just a person, but an entire cosmos vanishing in an instant.