Template Drift

Haikus

Policy let go
template kept the empty box
people fed the ghost

Blank square on the page
acts more lawfully than law
old habits salute

No one asked that field
still the room could not leave it blank
silence filled it in

Legacy label
lingers like old perfume now
reviewers inhale

Decorative grave
for a requirement long dead
yet still collecting

Simplified policy
complexified by one old shape
ink obeys the frame

Obligation grows
where presentation mimics law
clean little parasite

Someone writes N slash A
and still feels slightly guilty
that is drift at work

The field should be gone
instead it moonlights as dread
inside every form

If the box survives
past the law that once fed it
do not call it neutral