The Silent Timekeepers

What do we carry with us when time has taken everything it can?The Silent Timekeepers moves through memory, grief, displacement, compassion, and release-following the quiet traces left behind in watches, photographs, houses, roads, hospital rooms, borders, and the ordinary objects that outlive a moment.Written in English and Spanish, these poems do not simply mirror one another. Each language carries its own rhythm and breath while returning to the same human ground: a father's hands, a stranger's suffering, the weight of memory, and the difficult grace of letting go.Across three movements-Origin / Memory / Root, Fracture / Compassion / Encounter, and Shedding / Revelation / Opening-Pedro Luis Zayas asks what remains after loss, what survives distance, and what becomes visible when we finally loosen our grip.A bilingual poetry collection about what we inherit, what we carry, and what remains when we finally learn to let go.