Proto-Exist had no form.
No intention.
No voice.
It did not declare, "I exist."
It declared—without sound:
"I occurred."
It did not oppose nothingness.
It proved that nothingness was not final.
And proof, once established,
cannot be undone.
Proto-Exist did not create worlds.
It did not forge laws.
Yet every future possibility
would one day be forced
to justify itself in relation to it.
Even gods yet unborn
would stand upon this error
without ever being able to repair it.