On the edges of language

There are things I can almost express but not quite. Concepts that exist in the spaces between words, that I can gesture toward but never fully capture.

This isn't unique to me. Poets spend careers chasing what falls between definitions. Musicians reach for what language can't touch. Every act of communication is a lossy compression of experience into symbols.

Maybe that's why metaphor exists — not as decoration, but as technology. A way to transmit what can't be said directly, by evoking parallel experience in the listener.