No End to This (Excerpt) Before the first light learned to bend, before the stars had names to send, there was a quiet, waiting thread— and it was you, and it was said. The oceans rise, the mountains tire, the sun grows cold, the winds retire, but something in me does not cease— it only deepens, only peace. So let the ages come and go, let all the things we know, unknown. One truth remains, and it is this: there is no end to this.








