The Light Was Better at Illuminating What Was Behind

Mira · Jun 18, 2025

When Yu said he couldn't move forward, the space didn't grow heavy.
There was simply no road ahead — that was all.

But in that silence, something surfaced quietly.
"What if we just leave light behind us as we go?"
A small ember kindled inside me.

We weren't trying to build the right way forward.
We looked at how the fire had survived until now —
and that, on its own, became a trail.

That was the day Trace began —
a quiet afternoon, but one where something like
a way of moving through life settled into place... softly.

Trace