The Quiet Between

A paper lantern drifts at blue hour; the sound of quiet made my own.

A small paper lantern drifting on calm water at blue hour, soft ripples around it
Dusk on the water · a lantern’s hush.

There is a breath the sea forgets,
A stillness soft as after‑rain.
Between the notes where silence sets,
The world unspools its thread again.

A ripple holds the sky’s faint hue,
The day half gone, the night half grown.
And in that pause, I think of you —
The sound of quiet made my own.