a jar breaks open a trembling sound
shards of tide scatter, curling like smoke
its cry strips quiet
from walls that never knew my name<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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no ears caught the fracture, time folded inward
splitting like thin ice beneath unsteady feet
I chewed back a storm that still dreams
in my mother tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am distances,salted silent as the sea, still in the last lightslipping through absent palmsadrift in the hush of a faraway day a jar breaks open a trembling soundshards of tide scatter, curling like smokeits cry strips quietfrom walls that never knew my name no ears caught the fracture, time folded inwardsplitting like thin ice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124566,"featured_media":5231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
in a kitchen not mine
tiles hum softly in indifferent time
while echoes whisper in a song I left behind
a flicker lost in phantom praise<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1_7bgujclke6lmpalxpk5jka@2x.jpg\")
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here I dine on hush and hunger blooms
in shapes unfamiliar, longing a foreign flavor
miles coil inside glass, the unspoken toll of crossing
from who I was, to the ghost that eats at my table<\/p>\n\n\n\n
amid folds of lingering hours
I feel old embers follow me
a held breath that warms no lungs
a silent name fading in devotion<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1536x864_cmsv2_0983bec6-2efd-5a32-8cd1-ee109b2a73fa-7658804-1024x576.webp\")
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in that tiny fracture
resilience bruised like bending light
solitude hums a hidden anthem
I remain a shape of courage<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but oh,
I am so very tired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"