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Ash Falls Slow, By BR Wilson, Guitars & Cigars

“Ash Falls Slow”

By BR Wilson, Guitars & Cigars


There’s a moment

right before the flame takes

where the world still thinks it owns you.


Phones buzzing.

Engines running.

People talking just to hear themselves exist.


Then

fire.


Not loud.

Not wild.

Just a quiet agreement

between leaf and hand.


And everything…

slows.


Smoke curls like old stories

you don’t have to finish.

It rises

unbothered by clocks,

unconcerned with outcomes.


You draw

not to escape,

but to arrive.


Right here.

Chair creaking.

Glass sweating beside you.

The day loosening its grip.


First third

sharp like memory.

Second

round like forgiveness.

Final

deep…

like the kind of silence

that doesn’t need filling.


No rush.

No finish line.

Just burn… and breath… and time behaving itself.


Out here,

there’s no algorithm.

No metrics.

No scoreboard for living.


Just you…

and a ritual older than noise.


A quiet rebellion

rolled in leaf and patience.


Ash falls slow

like it’s got nowhere else to be.


And for once…


neither do you.

 

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