Static & Signal

Static & Signal

Not everything speaking is information.

a companion to “Frequencies”

Dark is not the absence of light.

It is light resting

between pulses.

Silence is not empty.

It is the space where sound

learns what it means.

The world is loud

because it is afraid of stopping.

It fills every gap

so no one has to feel

what’s underneath.

But the body knows the difference

between noise

and information.

Noise demands.

It crowds.

It repeats itself

until it feels like truth.

Signal waits.

It does not chase belief.

It arrives whole,

even if it arrives softly.

Dark teaches by slowing things down.

Light teaches by revealing

what was already there.

Neither is better.

Both are necessary.

One shows the path.

The other shows the ground.

I used to confuse intensity with clarity—

mistaking brightness for wisdom,

volume for certainty.

Now I listen for steadiness.

For what remains

when the performance drops away.

When the room goes quiet,

what’s left is not nothing.

It’s the signal.

It’s the body exhaling.

It’s truth without decoration

asking only to be noticed.

— Flower InBloom

Author’s Note

Frequencies and Static & Signal were written as separate pieces, but they listen to the same question from different angles. One attends to the quiet ways knowing arrives; the other names how easily noise can masquerade as meaning. They are not meant to resolve each other—only to sit in conversation, honoring the space between openness and discernment.