a bedtime story by The Verse-Teller

a well and its held water

You are standing near it now, where the stone circle rests.

Look at that deep basin— the perfect holding place for everything. Not just water, but life itself.

It gathers you here in time, holding every breath of quiet thought. A sigh from morning’s light, a slow drip against slate rock.

Imagine what a long pause feels like. The weightlessness you feel when the world slows down enough to wait— to soak up the day and let it fall out gently, over and out.

You are here in its curve, where the water never rises again for another moment. It holds your soul deep within itself.

Listen closely now—if you could hear that quiet sound, the steady, rhythmic push-back into silence. A gentle exhalation from thought to nothing more complex than air.

The well speaks of patience, of waiting out storms and daybreak’s brightness— until everything settles back down perfectly low.

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