Chromatic Residue

Color bloomed behind the eyes where clarity once resided, accompanied by a fading metallic tang on the tongue. Rather than distinct memories, attention settled upon overlapping sensations, like pigments dispersing in water; this wasn't about recovering what *was*, but experiencing how focusing itself reshapes experience. Such internal refraction demonstrates that attempting to solidify perception inevitably alters it—a subtle stability emerges from this very process of change. This grounding through somatic resistance hints at a precarious balance, one continually negotiated and never fully resolved.