The Cascade

TOPO:
You speak as if a single breach
could undo the whole structure.

RHEO:
Not undo—
but re-align.
A breach shifts the flow,
and flows carry more than we intend.

TOPO:
So one new passageway
reshapes the corridors we thought were fixed.

RHEO:
Yes.
Currents find their own paths.
They carve out new channels,
and in time,
the map of the symbolic
no longer matches the map we drew.

TOPO:
And the collective?

RHEO:
It adjusts—or fractures.
Because alignment is never once-for-all;
it is the ongoing negotiation
between the paths we plan
and the currents we unleash.

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RHEO & TOPO:
A single breach
can become a river.