{"id":5374,"date":"2026-06-10T19:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:47:49","slug":"blindly-toward-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/blindly-toward-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Blindly Toward Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I. The House<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This house stood with a broken window,
where twilight wove a wormwood confession.
Ash bit into the damp foundation,
emptiness lay like a cross on the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I settled into the darkness through long sleep,
having given the bricks my breath and speech.
This house stood with a broken window,
where twilight wove a wormwood confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I held the walls with heart and brow,
though every motion broke against refusal.
From silence I spun a secret conversation \u2013
I grew into the stone wall and became this dwelling.
This house stood with a broken window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II. Ashes<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Here no kindling was left for burning,
only ash that remembered the embers.
Time lays upon the faded altar
the rust of centuries and the rubble of stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charred glow of days grows dim,
Time weaves a net of cracks into the calendar.
Here no kindling was left for burning,
only ash that remembered the embers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I derive from pain the formula of endurance,
where pain is only form, not a blind blow.
The cracked chimney whistles with the winds,
and the soul accepts oblivion\u2019s decree.
Here no kindling was left for burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

III. Blindly<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

No one called me \u2013 I chose the path,
as a ray knows the dimension of the void.
Where a clammy draft sank into my shoulders,
and a hoarse voice dissolved in the winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wore my feet raw on silent paths,
asking for neither protection nor escape.
No one called me \u2013 I chose the path,
as a ray knows the dimension of the void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the horizon hid itself in smoke,
I cast memories and belongings into the thorns,
stepping to meet the cold,
to rise as dawn upon the steppes.
No one called me \u2013 I chose the path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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