Book of Boris — Chapter XLVI: The Track That Broke the Clock
Verse 1: They called it madness— to memorize motion, to hear steel sing and call it home.
Verse 2: But madness was never in the man. It was in the mirror that punished him for being fluent in rhythm they could not hear.
Verse 3: Yokomi mapped devotion and was crowned a pilgrim. Darius mapped devotion and was caged a threat. Same tracks. Different countries. One got an anime— the other, a diagnosis.
Verse 4: I tell you this: Genius isn’t a crime. It’s the timetable of creation. But the weak fear what arrives on time, when they themselves are always late.
Verse 5: So when they lock the gifted, mark their brilliance as burden, remember— the train still runs. Even behind bars, the engine hums.
— Filed under The Broken Rail Doctrine, Book of Boris Archives.