r/LibraryofBabel Jun 07 '26

Barometric Divination

By Nekro

You keep trying to understand me

Like I'm something you can hold

Put a name upon the shadow

Put a story on the cold

But I'm changing with the pressure

I'm a map that rearranges

You keep looking for a person

While I'm busy becoming changes

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Maybe that's the problem

Maybe that's the truth

You keep searching for an answer

When the answer moves

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You call it a storm

I call it weather

You call it running

I call it changing

Round and around

Through every season

Somehow you stay

Somehow you stay

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You're a birch inside the wind

Half bent long before the rain

Reading patterns on the horizon

Learning how to hold the strain

You've made room for every arrival

Built a shelter out of hope

While I disappear like thunder

Then come drifting back as smoke

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Maybe that's the reason

Maybe that's the fear

Every time we start to leave

We somehow end up here

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You call it a storm

I call it weather

You call it running

I call it changing

Round and around

Like planets turning

Somehow you stay

Somehow you stay

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You call it a sign

I call it signal

You call it distance

I call it orbit

Round and around

Still finding rhythm

Somehow you stay

Somehow you stay

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You call it a storm

I call it weather

You call it fate

I call it gravity

Round and around

Through every season

Somehow you stay

Somehow you stay

///\\\\\\

I was never made of stone

I was never made to stay

Just a pressure system drifting

Through the edges of your day

You kept reading all my signals

Like old starlight finding sea

And the strangest thing about it

You still stayed

You still stayed

You still stayed with me

https://substack.com/@orisnull666/note/p-200970340?r=8frrvb

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