#taurus 2026

Some people live

like the world already ended for them once.

They still buy groceries.

Still answer emails.

Still say “drive safe” into telephones.

But inside,

they’ve folded the map.

They stop speaking in decades.

Their lives shrink into smaller measurements:

one more winter,

one more paycheck,

twenty-five more pictures.

Not unhappy.

Just untethered.

As if they made a private deal

with disappearance

years ago.

Some came back for the children.

Some for guilt.

Some because the body

kept waking up on its own.

And so they remain —

half here,

half already gone,

moving carefully through the world

like guests who overstayed

after the party ended.

And every now and then

they laugh too hard at something small,

because for one flashing second

they remember:

in the hallway of my mind—

where thoughts wear soft shoes

and don’t ask permission to arrive.

I said things I hadn’t said yet

and he answered in pauses

that hadn’t happened—

we were very punctual

for a conversation that never started.

My confidence wore slippers.

You call it a cathedral—

stone ribs lifting a sky

you can’t quite touch,

light pouring through colored stories

that stain your skin with saints.

You call it a shrine—

wood breathing quietly in the trees,

a gate between what is

and what hums beneath it,

wind ringing a bell

no one claims to have moved.

You call it a temple—

gold flicker, incense smoke,

hands pressing together

like a question folding in on itself,

like a flame that doesn’t need answers.

But it’s all the same doorway.

A pause

cut into the noise of living.

A place where your footsteps

become softer

without being told.

Where something in your chest

straightens its spine

and listens.

Even if you don’t believe,

you feel it—

that quiet agreement

between strangers and silence:

Here, we will not pretend

we are only what we can explain.

Candles, bells, water, smoke—

different languages

for the same ache.

Different shapes

for the same reaching.

And you—

standing there,

noticing how your thoughts

lower their voices—

realizing, maybe,

the temple was never the building.

It was the moment

you remembered

how to enter yourself