when does bread become toast?
when does sand become a pile?
when does water become ice?

when does a boy become a man?
when does a girl become a woman?

when does a nobody become a somebody?
when does a somebody become a nobody?

when does a stranger become a friend?
when does a friend become a stranger?

when does a house become a home?
when does a room become too quiet?
when does the quiet become familiar?

when does a habit become a routine?
when does a routine become a rut?
when does a rut become a trap?

when does rest become avoidance?
when does avoidance become later?
when does later become never?

when does tired become exhausted?
when does exhausted become numb?
when does numb become nothing?

when does alone become lonely?
when does lonely become invisible?

when does holding on become refusing to let go?
when does letting go become giving up?

when does a memory become a wound?
when does a wound become a scar?
when does a scar become a part of you?

when does a secret become a lie?
when does a lie become a life?

when does sadness become depression?
when does something you feel
become something you are?

when does wanting to be alone
become wanting to disappear?

when does disappearing
become being gone?

when does being gone
become being forgotten?

when does—