You’ve finished reading.
But not everything ends when you close a page.

Some words stay —
 not as memory,
  but as tuning.

And maybe now,
 when you walk,
  you’ll hear something
   between footsteps.

Maybe now,
 you’ll listen
 not for meaning —
 but for presence.

And maybe the sound
 that never quite arrived
  is the one
   that stays.