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Poem Title: The Archive Of Unfinished Light (129)
Date Written: 21.08.25
Author: Nigel G Wilcox
Date Written: 21.08.25
Author: Nigel G Wilcox
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The Archive of Unfinished Light is an inquiry into silence, not as absence, but as presence unspoken. We ask: is silence ever truly silent? It listens. It remembers. Frequencies ripple through vacuum, light flickers in the dark, and even stillness bears witness. Silence is not void but vessel, holding the echoes of what was, what might be, and what remains unsaid. We speak of light and shadow, but to what degree, and by whose measure? In this archive, silence is not the end of speech, but the beginning of attunement.
Memory flickers like a lantern half-lit, its glow reaching only the edges of what once was, never quite illuminating the whole. This is not failure, but incompletion, the kind that invites return, revision, and ritual. Here, light is not a final revelation but a threshold: an invitation to witness what remains unsaid, to tend the embers of grief and longing without rushing toward closure. Each beam, fractured or fading, becomes a testament to presence interrupted, a signal still searching for its receiver. In this corridor, the unfinished is holy, and illumination is a process of becoming.
Memory flickers like a lantern half-lit, its glow reaching only the edges of what once was, never quite illuminating the whole. This is not failure, but incompletion, the kind that invites return, revision, and ritual. Here, light is not a final revelation but a threshold: an invitation to witness what remains unsaid, to tend the embers of grief and longing without rushing toward closure. Each beam, fractured or fading, becomes a testament to presence interrupted, a signal still searching for its receiver. In this corridor, the unfinished is holy, and illumination is a process of becoming.