Ink & Silence: For Your Eyes Only
"A Quirk of the Heart"
There are moments when life just drifts by — faces blur into one another, and we barely blink.
In life, we cross paths with all sorts of people all the time –
People come and go. Some linger, most don’t.
They might make us laugh, impress us, or even stay in our lives for years…
…but we still mostly move along without any second thoughts. Without any spark.
They’re just background noise, familiar yet forgettable.
And that’s okay. That’s normal.
But then something different happens. Something strange.
And then sometimes we run across someone, even fleetingly…
Someone whose presence makes the air feel a little heavier,
or maybe lighter, depending on how your heart holds it.
…who, apparently for no reason other than some weird, paradoxical quirk of the heart…
That’s you.
I don’t know why.
I don’t know how.
But your name lingers in places where no one else’s does.
And even if the thought is totally ridiculous, triggers something somewhere, and makes us wonder about it all.
That’s the thing.
I don’t even know what I’m wondering about.
Just that when you crossed paths with me,
I felt it.
Maybe I imagined it. Maybe it’s one-sided. Maybe I’ll never know.
But…
For some reason I cannot fathom, and being very mindful that for a million reasons it all very much makes no sense at all,
You still show up in the quiet of my days.
In the pause before I fall asleep.
In the songs that feel like secrets.
You are one of these rare people.
The kind I don’t forget.
The kind who doesn’t blur.
I guess I just needed to say that.
Even if it never makes it to you,
Even if it never means anything to you —
It means something to me.
