Thursday, 7 August 2025

What Is Not There

A meditation on absence:


TOPO:
There is a gap.

RHEO:
A silence?

TOPO:
No—an absence. Something should be here, but isn’t.

RHEO:
Then it’s present… as missing.

TOPO:
Strange, isn’t it? That the not-there can still shape what is.

RHEO:
Not so strange. Every form emerges from contrast.
Absence is the echo that gives presence its edge.

TOPO:
So even what is absent… constrains what becomes.

RHEO:
Yes.
What is not gives contour to what is.


RHEO & TOPO:
We are shaped by what we are not.
By the missed, the withheld, the forgotten.
The real is haunted by its possibilities.

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