Tears don’t always fall. They drift in the mind like satellites loosed from orbit, slow-motion signals across the blackroom of time. Not grief, but gravity remembering.
Love isn’t a moment it’s a constellation burned into the hands of an oaken clock and every breath, a frequency that keeps pulsing long after touch has stilled.
You never forget the day they vanished, the shape they left behind an imprint in the air and universe like heat after lightning, like a silhouette scorched into the filmstrip of your soul.
Some things pass in a second But memory? Memory is spacetime’s rebel. It lingers longer than a moment itself It's a glitch in the hourglass, a clock that refuses to stop ticking even when the hands are gone it still chimes.
They may have drifted maybe forgotten from time to time , maybe just changed shapes but when you reach inside you still see their face in reflections, hear their voice in the background static of late-night silence.
We carry them: in bloodline-chords, in laughlines carved from shared jokes, in arguments we still finish alone.
Moments become galaxies in the afterglow brightbursts we revisit in an instance when everything else fades. Time dissolves, but memory is ours to keep memory is a stardust archivist. It is our catalog of love lost and found in the particles we breathe without knowing.
And so we orbit one another forever even when apart, family and loved ones remain a constellation-map etched in soul-skin.
The world moves forward, but the hands of time on some clocks refuse to reset. Because we were built to feel to remember, to carry love beyond the math of minutes and moments.
And when the universe forgets we don’t because love lives in our hearts forever
We gather the remnants, build temples from echoes, and stand together in the gravity of what once was, holding it all until the day memory fold us together again
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin July 2025 Where Memory outlives Time