I was not always stone.51Please respect copyright.PENANAzmjIWDTDSM
Once, I was a line in the dust—children’s laughter skipping across me, careless and free.51Please respect copyright.PENANAN3Jyd6YMBu
Before the boundary, before the silence, I was only a shadow at sunset,51Please respect copyright.PENANAXHWQnOcScK
A suggestion, not a sentence.51Please respect copyright.PENANAC0e8GBOGZ4
They built me in the hush of dusk,51Please respect copyright.PENANAUJ0rsGdGCF
Hands heavy with secrets, eyes turned away from what could not be spoken.51Please respect copyright.PENANArYLqXeXLiW
Each stone laid with a memory pressed beneath—51Please respect copyright.PENANAzhQDPx0gD9
Betrayal, longing, a promise broken under jacaranda blossoms.51Please respect copyright.PENANAkGbcHs17Xc
I have watched generations pass:51Please respect copyright.PENANAVETsVSqs2L
Girls tracing fingers along my cracks, boys daring each other to touch my cold face.51Please respect copyright.PENANASkKF3iS0Kd
Notes slipped through my seams—blue thread, folded corners, trembling hope.51Please respect copyright.PENANAeYO1GhjgVa
I have tasted rain, dust, chalk, and the salt of tears that never reached the other side.51Please respect copyright.PENANAbne3clqGve
I remember the night of fire, the hush after the sirens,51Please respect copyright.PENANAPeDAb7Nrmo
The way silence spread like spilled ink,51Please respect copyright.PENANAaLOwTqkJBS
And the new rules that pressed tighter than mortar.51Please respect copyright.PENANAXzf0GWYevz
I remember the old names,51Please respect copyright.PENANAgjqM2JjYZt
The ones erased from ledgers,51Please respect copyright.PENANARfNPAWHWrz
The ones who crossed, who vanished,51Please respect copyright.PENANA04PyzcoP3V
The ones who stood at my base and whispered,51Please respect copyright.PENANAfQa63AOMC1
“The wall is not the secret.”51Please respect copyright.PENANAdktdT4rVe2
I have seen the cameras come,51Please respect copyright.PENANAmSwzO0MHu6
The patrols, the painted warnings—51Please respect copyright.PENANAVszpISNRRF
But I have also felt the heartbeat of those who refuse to forget,51Please respect copyright.PENANAKAReEF8nG5
Who still look for cracks,51Please respect copyright.PENANAbMTJXEqmYy
Who still listen for echoes.51Please respect copyright.PENANAUdBlBZXN8w
I am not just a boundary.51Please respect copyright.PENANAxYoWbLywFh
I am the keeper of what was lost,51Please respect copyright.PENANARRzGIEJcyr
The witness to what endures.51Please respect copyright.PENANABmxtXbB6Dn
I remember everything—51Please respect copyright.PENANACi0wtPOsoz
Even the things no one dares to say aloud.51Please respect copyright.PENANAeCKbLBevaN
And as new footsteps falter in my shadow,51Please respect copyright.PENANAjO8KxJKYEd
I wait.51Please respect copyright.PENANA1cqlHwBrs6
Because every wall,51Please respect copyright.PENANAQb2lOojT6H
No matter how high,51Please respect copyright.PENANAwr6VVvlCnh
Remembers how to crumble.
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The Wall of Cards: Shadows Beyond the Wall
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Eddie Otieno

ISSUE #9
CHAPTER EIGHT The Wall’s Whisper
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The Wall of Cards: Shadows Beyond the Wall
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Last updated: Jun 11, 2025
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