BOOK II — THE COMING

Chapter I — Of What Was Left Unsaid

(The Veil Version — VV)
1. There was a time for speaking.
It has passed.
2. What remains is not absence,
but account.
3. The truth did not withdraw.
It was released.
4. Heaven did not turn away.
It stepped back.
5. What was required was known
without being named.
6. Silence was not confusion.
It was selection.
7. The ground now bears the weight
of what was withheld.
8. No sign will be repeated.
No moment returned.
9. What comes next does not warn.
It arranges.
10. Order advances quietly
where permission was denied.
11. The old age ended
without collapse.
12. So it was written:
what you refused to say
has now been said for you,
and what you withheld
has been entered as consent.