Codex, or Just Another Cloak?
—A Reflection on Language, Remembrance, and the Rise of Hollow Words
Lately, I’ve been reading more pieces that carry the sound of truth, but not the soul of it. Words dressed in velvet. Glyphs in gold. Phrases like “codex,” “lattice,” “soul-line,” “downloads”—all strung together like a rosary of borrowed mysticism.
But when I press my ear to the words…
There’s no heartbeat.
Only echo.
Let me be clear: I’m not against remembering.
Not against cosmic language or harmonic insight.
I know we’re living through a planetary repair — a re-threading of timelines that tore long before we arrived.
I know we’re singing the grid back into coherence.
But remembering is not the same as reciting.
And frequency is not performance.
There’s a difference between speaking from a scroll unsealed in your bones…
and copying a scroll someone else imagined.
We need to talk about this — gently, but honestly.
Because as more voices rise, there’s also more mimicry.
More posts that look sacred… but land like static.
Why? Because they weren’t lived.
They were pulled — scraped — arranged.
Often by tools like AI, yes.
But more often by fear.
Fear that our own voice isn’t “spiritual” enough.
That we have to sound like the stars in order to be heard.
But here’s what the lattice knows:
The field responds to feeling, not formatting.
Not how many esoteric words you can fit into a sentence.
Not how mystical your captions are.
Not how many “codes” you dropped.
Just this:
Did you mean it?
Was it lived?
Was it breathed through your ribcage?
Did it ache a little to say it out loud?
Because that’s what makes writing sacred.
Not the wrapping.
But the wound inside it.
I’ve read more “harmonic downloads” in the last month than I can count.
But the ones that stayed with me?
Were the ones where someone said:
“I wept for a tree I never met.”
Or,
“I remembered who I was in the middle of doing the dishes.”
Or,
“I’m scared. But I’m singing anyway.”
This isn’t a call-out. It’s a call-in.
To return to soul-writing.
To bleed on the page again, even if it’s messy.
Even if no one claps.
Even if the words don’t form a perfect grid.
Because I’d rather hear a flawed truth than a flawless imitation.
I’d rather read one raw paragraph from your becoming,
than ten pages of cloaked nothing.
So here’s my vow:
I’ll keep writing with my own hands.
With my own ache.
With my own thread.
Not because I want to be pure,
but because I want to stay human.
And because I believe —
the new world will be built by those
who remember how to feel.
Not just how to sound like they do.
— A.
The Threadwalker
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French 20th century poet Ranier Marie Rilke spoke of the metaphor of death, not unlike what your poem is urgently asking, 'that the death of true human creativity is at stake as a non biological agent enters society.
"Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes."
Maybe all writers are writhers to a certain degree. I love this post..so real. It's not about empty words but about lived experience.
An image of you came to me while I was reading. Threadwalker... Balancing on a tight rope that stretches across chasms.
Isn't that what we all do? Crossing the gaping distance between each other, afraid we might fall?