The Book of Us
Harmony VIII
We do not need another story.
We do not need to invent who we are.
We do not need to borrow meaning from somewhere else.
What we carry did not begin with disruption, and it does not end with it.
It was shaped long before it was challenged.
And what is shaped cannot be erased by what tried to interrupt it.
And when the story is told rightly, something settles.
Not elsewhere—but here.