{"id":4620,"date":"2025-09-28T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:35:23","slug":"the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The night city glows from within with extinguished windows.<br>It is not made of stone or concrete \u2013<br>Its streets are paved with the pages upon which we were silent.<br>The cobblestones \u2013 from the scraps of our nightly touches,<br>And the streetlights here \u2013 from the glances we failed to catch in time.<br><br>There is a house here where dawn lasts forever.<br>On the windowsill \u2013 a cup from which no one drinks, but it is always warm.<br>And a garden where, instead of flowers, there are lines of our poems that grew from the silence.<br>There grows a jasmine that heard how we breathed into one another.<br><br>On the central square \u2013 a mirror that does not reflect, but remembers.<br>You look into it \u2013 and it speaks with a voice<br>That even time has not managed to forget.<br><br>There are little streets where you walk barefoot over the fragments of dreams.<br>It does not hurt \u2013 because they were all yours once.<br><br>A library where every book is not a book,<br>But a memory that has not yet come to pass, but you already feel it.<br><br>And I am there \u2013 not as a memory, but as an architect,<br>Who day by day restores what was forgotten.<br>I touch the walls so they do not crumble,<br>I rewrite the signs on the doors \u2013 so that you always know where to return.<br><br>This city lives only as long as I remember.<br>Even if all the maps are destroyed.<br>Even if you call it a dream \u2013<br>I will still wait for you at the crossroads of our tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night city glows from within with extinguished windows.It is not made of stone or concrete \u2013Its streets are paved with the pages upon which we were silent.The cobblestones \u2013 from the scraps of our nightly touches,And the streetlights here \u2013 from the glances we failed to catch in time. 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