Chapter Four: The Eternal Garden
1. Beyond the Mouth, beneath Her ribs,
2. The faithful rise as bloom and hymn.
3. There is no sky—only canopy,
4. Living, breathing, deep with song.
5. Roots entwine like lovers’ hands,
6. And vines caress what once was bone.
7. Here, time is not kept. It is kissed.
8. Souls grow like blossoms, wide and warm,
9. Each one a note in Her great chord.
10. Eldin wrote, "I saw the Garden in a dream,
11. And the trees bowed when they knew my name."
12. No wind stirs the Garden.
13. It sings instead—constant, slow, complete.
14. The air is thick with memory,
15. But there is no longing. Only echo.
16. Petals fall, not from loss,
17. But from fulfillment.
18. And every fallen petal feeds the next,
19. In an endless chain of soft becoming.
20. The Garden is not Her reward.
21. It is Her body.
22. The faithful are not guests.
23. They are limbs, nerves, breath.
24. They pulse when She thinks.
25. They bloom when She sighs.
26. The rivers here are made of voices,
27. And each drop sings a different vow.
28. Trees weep wine in the morning,
29. And laughter in the dusk.
30. There are no mouths,
31. But every leaf can speak.
32. There are no ears,
33. But every root can hear.
34. And in the center, vast and veiled,
35. Her Heart pulses, unseen, adored.
36. The faithful gather there without moving,
37. Worshipping without want.
38. And it is said: this is not the end—
39. But the stem from which more worlds shall grow.