False Amber (from the Black Bazaar, Or by A Kervan Trader from the Lands Afar, Or Buried Beneath the Shifting Sands That Lead Everywhere but Nowhere, Or Perhaps Simply Found in the Dusty Corner of a Long-Forgotten Curiosity Shop, Waiting Patiently to Be Believed In Once More, Or Whispered Into Existence by the Perfumed Breath of a Merchant Who Sells Mirages for Coin, Or Lost and Regained a Thousand Times Across the Caravan Routes of Memory, Or Perhaps Never Made at All but Dreamed by the Sand Itself Beneath an Unmoving Sun, Or Carried Home in the Sleeve of a Storyteller Who Swore It Was Only a Trinket Yet Spoke Its Name with Trembling Voice, Or Written in the Margins of a Map That Folds Itself Differently Each Time It’s Opened, Pointing Always Away From Where You Stand, Or Sold Beneath a Sky That Forgot Its Own Color, When Gold Was Still a Rumor and Truth Was Cheaper Than Spice, Or Hidden in a Jar of Salted Light Beneath a Merchant’s Stall Where Even Time Comes to Haggle, Or Found Again in the Eyes of a Statue That Remembers the Shape of Its Maker’s Hands, Or Sung by a Voice That Has Never Known a Mouth, Or Caught Between the Cracks of a Clock That Counts Not Hours But Stories, Or Floating Adrift Through Markets That Exist Only When No One Looks, Or Simply Waiting, as All Lost Things Do, To Be Found by Someone Who Will Mistake It for Something Else Entirely, And Thus Keep It Safe Forever, Or Glimpsed Within a Drop of Glass That Believes Itself to Be the Sea, Or Bartered for a Memory That No Longer Fits Its Owner, Or Born Each Dusk from the Shadows of the Bazaar’s Shifting Tentcloth and Dying Again When Dawn Refuses to Pay Its Price, Or Carved From the Reflection of a Jewel That Was Never There, Or Remembered Only by the Sandworms Who Sing It as a Lullaby to Fossils, Or Written in the Language of Footsteps Left Behind by Those Who Wandered Too Far to Return, Or Encased in Resin That Crystallized Around a Lie Too Beautiful to Deny, Or Offered as Tribute to a God Who Long Ago Sold His Own Name for Silence, Or Forgotten Beneath the Ledger of a Trader Who Counts His Profits in Dreams, Or Growing Slowly, Like Patience, Beneath the Glass of an Hour That Will Never Empty, Or Recorded on the Breath of a Desert Wind That Knows All Names but Answers to None, Or Hidden in the Laughter of a Child Who Has Never Seen the Sea Yet Draws Its Shape Perfectly in the Sand, Or Growing From the Cracks of a Market Tile That Remembers the Weight of Countless Bargains, Or Woven Into the Song of a Moth That Mistakes Lamplight for Sunrise, Or Sleeping in the Space Between Two Mirrors That Refuse to Agree Which One Is Real, Or Guarded by a Cat Made of Smoke That Only Exists While Someone Is Forgetting Something Precious, Or Painted Onto a Coin That Refuses to Be Spent, Or Shelved Among a Thousand Unnamed Relics That Hum Softly When the Door Is Closed, Or Dreamed by the Ink of a Contract Written Too Long Ago to Still Be Binding, Or Seen Only Once by the Eye of a Dying Star and Remembered Forever by Its Light, Or Spoken About in Taverns That Are Never in the Same Place Twice, Or Written in Salt Across a Shoreline That Moves When No One Watches, Or Whispered by the Bones of a Merchant Who Tried to Weigh Its Worth and Found Himself Lighter for the Effort, Or Hidden in the Silence Between Two Songs That Both Pretend to Be the First, Or Offered in Trade for a Story That Ends Differently Each Time It’s Told, Or Stored in the Last Breath of an Hourglass That Forgot Which Way the Sand Should Fall, Or Sewn Into the Robe of a Pilgrim Who Has Walked Too Far to Turn Around, Or Reflected in the Eyes of a Mirror That Has Never Been Looked Into, Or Remembered by a Marketplace That Exists Only in the Dust Between Stars, Or Kept Alive by the Memory of a Hand That Once Tried to Touch It and Learned That Illusions Burn Cool, Or Stored Beneath a Dome of Glass That Sings When the Wind Pretends to Be a Flute, Or Growing, Still, Beneath the Skin of the World Like a Pulse Waiting to Be Heard, Or Simply Found, After All, In the Quiet Moment When a Trader’s Scales Finally Balance and the Wind Decides, Briefly, To Hold Its Breath—And In That Stillness, If You Listen Closely, You May Hear It Glow)
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