The Sound That Stayed

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18/02/26

It wasn’t music.
Not exactly.
Just a faint sound from somewhere nearby—unclear, unfinished, almost accidental.
But it stayed.
He couldn’t place it later. Not the source, not the tune. Only the feeling remained—as if something had brushed past and decided to linger.
We often think it’s the big moments that define a day.
But sometimes, it’s just a passing note. A half-heard laugh. A fragment of something that never fully arrives.
And yet, it settles within.
“Strange,” he said, “how incomplete things feel more real.”
Maybe completeness demands closure.
And we are not always ready for that.
So we hold on to the unfinished—the almost, the nearly, the just-before—it-ends.
Because somewhere in that space, we are still part of it.
No endings. No conclusions.
Just something that stayed a little longer than expected.
Release the day gently… it has already given you more than you noticed.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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