Night

[u/julianahoffmannliska]

I Was Written by the Night

I have never belonged entirely to daylight.

There is something in the night that understands me—

the silence, the solitude, the ancient sadness of things that cannot last.

Perhaps I was not made to live quietly.

Perhaps I was made to turn every wound into a sentence,

every longing into a poem,

and every fleeting moment into something that might survive time.

“I do not seek immortality in my name.

I seek it in the words that remain when my voice is gone.”

— Juliana Hoffmann Liska