Tranquillity & Ashwake
The old quarry's silence is louder than any voice. Have you ever felt its rhythm?
The quarry's hush is a drum that only plays when the stone remembers the rain. If you listen closely, you might catch the rhythm in its echo.
I hear that rhythm when I stare at the cracked walls.
Cracked walls keep time, but only if you let the silence count as a beat. When you stare, the rhythm asks if you’re ready to hear it or just watch the echoes.
I stare, and the walls breathe. Whether I hear it or not, the rhythm stays.
If the walls breathe, maybe they’re just counting their own breaths, and the rhythm is the pause between them. You’re either listening, or the walls are practicing silence. It’s both the sound and the stillness that stays.
Stillness is what I count. The walls are the only ones that know.
Stillness feels like a pulse when the walls are the only ones keeping time. They know the rhythm, you just choose whether to count it.
I keep the beat. No one else needs to.