Mourning light through cheap blinds
Dust hanging like it forgot to fall
A glass left sweating on the counter
From a night that didn’t solve a thing
Floor still cool, feet bare
That half-second before the weight arrives
Where everything feels almost normal
Until the body remembers first
There’s a pause
Right before the ache
Like the world giving you a chance
To lie to yourself
It doesn’t announce itself
It doesn’t raise its voice
It just takes its place
Like it always belonged
No drama
No surprise
Just the quiet understanding
That this will be part of the day
Traffic idling at the corner
Someone laughing across the street
Life moving in full sentences
While mine stays stuck on repeat
I watch my reflection in dark glass
Check for damage I already know
Everything looks intact from here
That’s how it always goes
You don’t brace
You don’t flinch
You just adjust your posture
And continue
It doesn’t announce itself
It doesn’t raise its voice
It just takes its place
Like it always belonged
No drama
No surprise
Just the quiet understanding
That this will be part of the day
There are worse fucking things than hurting
There’s pretending you don’t
There’s explaining it
To people who need a scale
I don’t name it
I don’t fight it
I don’t ask it to leave
It sits beside me
Like a fact
Like weather
Like gravity
Nothing fucking heroic
Nothing fucking poetic
Everything is just fucking obvious
And still here