a bedtime story by The Verse-Teller

frost writing on the window

Let your breath slow down now, let it gather in soft sighs. Feel the edges you forgot to notice— the pattern where snow has built up.

It’s not just dust motes here, it's something deeper, something waiting. A whisper of crystalline memory.

Watch how each drop forms: a silent circle, perfectly balanced right and left.

You are watching it rise now, from the cool air settling down. The gentle slope of nothingness catching light.

See that curve— the pattern made by time itself. It’s a slow, patient geography. A map for things to settle into.

And you feel it too. Your shoulders drop slightly with each passing breath, as if remembering how much peace is in holding still.

Think about what this means: how snow gathers shape and form. How the gentle settling lifts up a perfect geometry from nothing at all.

It’s not a harsh discipline, really— more like being drawn into quiet thought. A slow, steady pattern tracing lines, drawing out circles that never end.

You watch it curve around itself— the spiral path of pure coldness. And feel your own thoughts folding in on themselves, like this delicate silk fabric.

Each drop seems to be waiting for nothing at all, just to meet and form this perfect square. A perfect geometry, held steady by the air currents.

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