Delta

A hidden rhythm under bone
The dark repeats what breath has known

I rest inside a fragile stream
Where pulses bloom beneath the seam
My thoughts unravel, thin and wide
And drift along the inward tide

The air moves slow through tangled lines
A hum beneath the grand design

Before I wake, I drift unseen
A space between what was and been
No thought to bind, no tide to break
I move through forms the dawn won't take

My veins align with tempered grace
A rhythm born of no fixed place
Each cell recalls a wordless ache
A code the living can't remake

The current folds, the body hums
The deeper self, before it comes

Before I wake, I drift unseen
A space between what was and been
No thought to bind, no tide to break
I move through forms the dawn won't take

No vow to keep, no dawn to chase
Just rhythm bending into grace
The pulse repeats, the hours fade
And time forgets the shape it made

If morning comes, I may not stay
Its light would wash this calm away
Let me remain where shadows ache
Before I wake