Meaning implies interpretation. Interpretation implies mind. Mind implies self. Self implies contrast to other. Other had not arisen.
It did not fall into meaninglessness.
Meaninglessness implies expectation unmet. Expectation implies desire. Desire implies absence. Absence implies loss. None had taken form.
No echo followed.
No silence preceded.
No cycle to begin.
No cycle to end.
Not waiting to unfold.
Not sealed from unfolding.
If unfolding had tried to breathe, it would have faded before breath could suggest motion.
If closure had tried to settle, it would have vanished before rest could imply stillness.
Just there—
Not declared.
Not withheld.
Unmoved, not because it held stillness, but because motion had not yet been born to offer its opposite.
And in that untouched expanse where no expanse yet meant distance—
—it remained, needing no word, carrying no absence of one, simply as it was before as could be spoken.
Not present.
Not absent.
