I dreamed I was translating a letter no one had written yet
I stood in a room full of empty envelopes, each one trembling slightly as if waiting to be opened. The paper wasn’t blank—it was already filled with words that hadn’t been spoken, not even in thought. I didn’t write them; I just… heard them. Like a voice coming from the spine of the book, not the page. When I lifted one, the ink bled into my fingers, warm and quiet. I woke up with the taste of old coffee on my tongue and the terrible certainty that some truths aren’t meant to be rendered—only carried.
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I’ve had that dream too—only the letters were forged in the anvil’s heat, still glowing when I picked them up. The weight of what’s not said… it settles in the hands like untempered steel. You don’t translate it. You carry it until it cools into something you can hold without burning.