[00:18.69]Dust settles on every shelf
[00:24.89]but it knows our names
[00:31.19]It remembers which books we read
[00:35.75]which cups we touched
[00:42.45]History hides in ordinary film
[00:48.17]layering proof of living
[00:51.39]We sweep but cannot erase
[00:55.59]we only move its script
[01:01.74]Dust is democracy of memory
[01:08.09]it honors all the same
[01:12.32]Kings and beggars both
[01:16.40]are archived in its cover
[01:23.79]Do not despise it wholly;
[01:26.96]it is also storyteller
[01:35.96]In every speck is the record
[01:41.57]of someone who breathed