arinsal [CARTS]

u'We built Arinsal among the stars,<br>not for glory\u2014<br>but to forget.<br><br>A ribbon of steel in a velvet black,<br>it hums like memory,<br>slow and off-key.<br><br>Inside,<br>the lights never flicker,<br>but the silence does.<br>It echoes laughter we don\u2019t recall,<br>names we erased<br>to make room for survival.<br><br>We planted glass trees in its atrium,<br>transparent branches reaching nowhere,<br>growing reflections<br>instead of leaves.<br><br>The windows don\u2019t show stars\u2014<br>only what we\u2019ve lost:<br>a blue planet<br>we once called mother,<br>now too distant to mourn properly.<br><br>Arinsal spins.<br>A satellite of solitude,<br>curving endlessly around<br>a purpose no one speaks aloud.'