Zephyr of thee

The Orchard of Unseen Things

✨ Intro

Some poems are puzzles — not to be solved, but to be felt.

This is one such piece:
a web of contradictions, strange images, and silent truths.

It won’t make sense at first — and that’s the point.
Because sometimes, confusion is the only honest path to understanding.

🌿 Poem

In fields where clocks forget to tick,
The apples hang from shadows thick.
The trees grow roots into the air—
Their branches buried, unaware.

A lantern swings on threadless string,
Lit by a flame that once burned nothing.
It hums a tune no ears recall,
Yet every stone begins to fall.

The sky is stitched with lines of ink,
Each cloud a thought you failed to think.
A bird that flies without a wing
Will cage itself for fear of spring.

A mirror speaks in backward lies—
You see the truth, but not with eyes.
Its surface bends to show the past,
Then twists it slow… and shows it last.

A key is lost in locks unmade,
And doors appear where thoughts have strayed.
But those who knock will never find
The house that only lives in mind.

🔍 Meaning

This poem gently unravels the tension between perception and truth.

The orchard symbolizes the mind — lush and fertile, but inverted.
Trees growing downward reflect how our beliefs often root in illusion.

The lantern and its forgotten song hint at buried wisdom — things we once knew but let fade.

The bird in fear of spring embodies self-imposed limitation — we often fear freedom more than cages.

The mirror speaks in distortions — where memory reshapes reality and identity gets blurred.

And in the final stanza lies the core truth:
We keep searching outward for answers that have always lived within us.

🪞 Outro

Read this not to decode, but to reflect.

Let its paradoxes sit quietly with you.
Truth hides in confusion for a reason —
because only those who look inward will recognize it.

This poem is not a map.
It is a mirror.

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