DISSOCIATED DOMAIN
I built a home from borrowed space,
a fragile kingdom with a public face.
Its pages breathed in packets and code,
a quiet place along the network road.
Then silence came—
not with a crash,
not with corrupted files
or fire in the racks.
Just an invoice missed,
a renewal ignored,
a forgotten date
on a forgotten board.
The names still knew me,
but no longer knew where to go.
DNS wandered,
asking questions
nobody answered.
The visitors arrived
expecting familiar doors,
only to find
a parked page
selling possibilities
where memories once lived.
My words remained somewhere,
unchanged,
unread.
A ghost site
trapped behind expiration.
The server still remembered me.
The domain did not.
And somewhere between
what existed
and what resolved,
I became
a dissociated domain.