The Modified Inner Map

I had been walking for a long time. Too long. Or maybe not.

Because here… time doesn't weigh. It doesn't flow. It doesn't settle like elsewhere. It dissolves. Slowly. Silently. Like a lukewarm vapor you don't feel, but that erases outlines. It's not that it passes. It's that it ceases to exist the moment you try to catch it. It becomes something else — a sensation without duration, a substance without weight.

Like sounds. Like memories. Like boundaries.

Everything slips. Nothing holds. Sounds no longer echo, thoughts fade before they even take shape, and places themselves seem hesitant to fully exist. It's not a desert. It's not a dream. It's a grey zone, slow, soft, where each step forgets itself in the next.

I no longer knew if I was moving forward.

Maybe I was repeating.