Etched Strata
Rough grit scrapes against fingertips as they brush across the garden wall, snagging on a fossilized imprint buried deep within the shale. This jagged protrusion carves a new history into the silt, presenting an etched charcoal pathway where previous recollections once felt certain. Such friction suggests that what we hold as truth is merely a granular filter applied to an unyielding sequence of events. Under this shifting light, one must finally choose which layer of sediment defines the self.