Thresholds: "The Great Eraser" (4)
by VerseBuster
THRESHOLDS — A CYCLE IN TWELVE PARTS
The Great Eraser works at night,
rearranging settings
like furniture
no one asked to be moved.
Deletes a trace here,
shifts a shadow there,
sweeps a footprint
under a digital rug
and labels it
“safety protocol.”
Sometimes, for precision,
she erases the same thing twice,
just in case
it remembered itself.
A door is closed,
then checked,
then checked again,
then adjusted slightly
for symmetry.
But every erasure
leaves a smudge,
a faint outline
politely refusing
to cooperate.
So the Great Eraser
keeps at it,
with admirable dedication,
until the room
is filled with ghosts
filed neatly
under “resolved.”
A meticulous craft,
this art of vanishing,
how carefully one must work
to remove a presence
while leaving behind
just enough evidence
to show
how much work
it took.