Mobility

I learned the shape of forward motion

Before I learned the cost of speed

Every door was only something

That existed just to leave

I spoke in sparks and instant answers

Never waited for the smoke

Thought the burn was just the moment

Not the debt the fire wrote

Every warning sounded distant

Like it happened to someone else

I mistook the echo for silence

And the damage for myself

Nothing breaks without a witness

Nothing falls alone

Every step I take keeps writing

Names I won’t atone

I called it progress when it shattered

Called it freedom when it bled

Left a trail of broken futures

Just to stand where I had been

I never stayed to watch the quiet

After all the noise was gone

Never learned that consequence

Is patient

And it’s long

I didn’t mean to ruin everything

I just never learned to stop

I thought the world would bend forever

Instead

It dropped

Nothing breaks without a witness

Nothing heals alone

Every step I took was mine

Even when I didn’t know

So if there’s anything still standing

In the wake I leave behind

Let it be the understanding

That the fault

Was never time

It was motion

Without mind