“Fade away like ink in the rain”

Fade away like ink in the rain—  
A ghostly script dissolving,  
Letters blurred on windowpanes  
And sidewalks slick, evolving  
Into rivers of lost refrain  
Where stories roam, resolving.  

Each droplet bleeds a whispered word  
Once bold upon a page;  
Now syllables are gently stirred  
By sky’s soft-handed rage.  
Witness how the colors erred,  
Merged blue with black to sage.  

Memories wash along the drain,  
Old lines begin to spill;  
Dreams scribbled out for none remain  
But linger, faint and still.  
Yet softer truths in silence reign—  
The ink yields to the will.  

So let what must, in time, be changed  
Or carried out to sea:  
The rains renew, the page arranged  
For what’s yet meant to be.  
All moments blurred, but still exchanged  
For hope’s blank poetry.

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