Pen and ink illustration of a humanoid figure's face inside a hooded suit patterned with yellow triangles, standing before jagged mountains and a moon.

Signal

How pale, the traveler, through years, has become.
Blinded by wonders brighter than the sun.
A wiseblindpale, silent, eternal man.

And yet he yearns for one, one word (he swears!), at most.
Alas, his signal is, long now, lost.
A memory perhaps. A breath. A ghost.