There’s a rhythm to loneliness when the sea forgets your name. The lighthouse blinks, not out of duty, but to stay sane. It was built to guard ships, but now it only guards silence. Every beam that stretches into the darkness is a reminder of things that have drifted away. The ocean waves don't care for light, nor does the keeper care for the ocean. In this forgotten place, time doesn’t need to pass, only remain, still and unchanged, like the light.
A Lighthouse Without a Keeper
Each wave brings forgotten syllables carved into foam, eroded before they can be read. The ocean speaks, but its language is fleeting, hidden in the rhythm of the tide. Every breeze carries an unspoken word. A gull's call echoes a sentence no one will finish. The sea is both poet and thief, whispering stories that it steals back before you can catch them. By the time you hear them, they’ve already become something else, something lost again to the horizon.
Even the tides are tired of returning, as each wave knows the path it must follow is already forgotten in the ebb and flow of time.
Night Pulls a Blanket Over the Tide
Darkness arrives not like an absence, but as a careful presence, laying itself over the restless sea. The waves murmur beneath its touch, like the last few notes of a song fading into the night. Above, the stars form patterns that only the ocean knows. The moon, too tired to rise, yawns and curls beneath the blanket. The night becomes a place to hide from time, a resting place for things too fragile to exist in the light. The tide sleeps, but the ocean dreams.
Driftwood Memories
An old man sits on the shore, carving faces into the driftwood washed up by the tide. Each one tells a story he’s never heard. He’s heard the ocean speak, but the driftwood speaks louder, in ways the sea can never quite manage. As he works, the stories unfold, connecting past and present, real and imagined. Each figure he shapes holds a memory of someone lost, someone found, someone forgotten. The ocean may have no memory, but the shore remembers everything.
