The Surface

The Surface

You can feel it in certain conversations.

Something starts to come into view—

then shifts.

A question is asked,

then softened.

A concern is raised,

but doesn’t stay as it is.

It’s not dismissed.

Just adjusted.

Enough to keep things steady.

It holds.

But what’s actually there

never quite lands as it is.

Over time, that becomes the pattern.

Not what is said.

But how it’s shaped.

And once that settles,

what needs to be said

has to find another way in.

Paul

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