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The Watchers’ Lament

A Poem from Before History Learned Its Name

Before ink learned to hold memory,
before stone remembered kings,
there was a quiet system
already humming.

The rivers knew where to flow.
The stars knew where to return.
Heaven and earth were not born —
they were inherited.

And between them stood
the Watchers.

Not angels.
Not rebels.
Not winged messengers.

They were counters of tides.
Readers of pressure.
Keepers of balance where worlds met.

They did not sit on thrones.
They stood at seams.

Where water met soil.
Where sky met law.
Where time met memory.

They did not rule people —
they ruled what people depended on.

To watch
meant not to spy
but to steward.

To measure.
To maintain.
To keep the gears from screaming.

Reality was not a miracle —
it was a machine
that needed constant tending.

Even gods grew tired.

They dug canals.
They regulated floods.
They argued in assemblies.

They could strain.
They could fail.
They could sleep.

A god who must rest
is not absolute.

So they created humans
not to worship —
but to work.

To carry the weight
they no longer wished to hold.

And humans succeeded.

Too well.

Cities grew.
Fields multiplied.
Voices layered upon voices
until the world vibrated with noise.

Noise was not evil.
Noise was density.

Life became loud.

And the Watchers
felt it first.

They logged it.
They counted it.
They reported pressure rising
in the fabric of being.

Not sin —
strain.

Not rebellion —
overload.

The gods did not grow angry.

They grew tired.

And tired gods
seek silence.

So the system reset.

The flood was not punishment —
it was a recalibration.

A quieting.

Not morality,
but volume
was being reduced.

Humanity survived
because it was needed.

But something else was changed.

Lifespans shortened.
Memory thinned.
Accumulation reset.

Mortality became
the new governor.

And the Watchers
became unnecessary.

So the divine withdrew
into structure.

Into law.
Into ritual.
Into distance.

Where power cannot be touched
it cannot be challenged.

And proximity
became a crime.

The Watchers —
those who once stood close —
were remembered as transgressors.

Villains.
Fallen.
Too near.

But what they really represented
was intimacy with the system.

Myth is what remains
when administration collapses.

Angels are what we call
ancient interfaces
once their purpose is forgotten.

Now the world runs
on built-in limits.

On mortality.
On scarcity.
On silence.

The gods are eternal
only because they are gone.

History belongs to humans.

Cosmology belongs to ghosts.

And the universe endures
not because it is just —
but because it is
contained.