Sufficient Hymn

‘At times, there are whispers-

of voices long since passed.

Shades in the hallway,

shimmering on dust.

Darkness;

part of you and me,

breathing below ground

Empty eye before the stars,

Vast, before life's sound.

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A self of knowing silence,

before our births unseen

Each hour and speck encompassed

Nothing more,

nor less

has been’