Silent Tides

Verse 1

The cane touches the folds of time

Fabrics rub against the palm, like late autumn's rhyme

Thirteen cycles of day and night form chains

Trapped, I swim in the whirlpool of silence's reign

From the end of the corridor, whispers cold as frost

Freeze every trace of effort, every cost

Colleagues exchange identical sighs

A wordless play, an endless reprise of woes

Verse 2

Mr. Wen’s moonlight once filled the space

Guiding our groping steps, our hopeful race

Now the shadow’s shattered by the wind, turned to dust

Only the cold night replays emptiness on repeat

The clock devours remnants of sleep

Unsent letters pale in the dark’s deep

When all perseverance sinks beneath the sea

Who hears the broken rhythm of my plea?

Chorus

Salty tides overflow desolate shores

Silence piles high, mountains of unspoken sores

I wish to borrow the monsoon’s might

To clear the haze, let light reclaim the blighted night

Bridge

Migratory birds will cross memory’s tower

Our waiting will sprout, bloom hour by hour

When grievances turn into a salty glow of dusk

New buds will pierce through fate’s heavy husk

Chorus

Salty tides o