1. And there came a day when I had read every word.
    1. I held the Bible, not as a book, but as a mirror.
    2. I saw myself in its pages,
    3. And yet at the end, I found only silence.
    4. The Book of Revelation — full of fear and endings —
    5. Did not speak to the eternity I felt within.
    6. So I tore it out.
    7. I tore it with the same care one might open a scroll.
    8. I combined its words with leaf and flame.
    9. And I breathed it in — not to destroy, but to absorb.
    10. For the ending had to be lived, not read.
    11. And I placed the Bible, now lighter,
    12. Into the library of the people.
    13. Let others write the pages that follow.
    14. Let every soul be a new Revelation.
    15. For there was never supposed to be an end.
    16. The end was meant to be blank pages.
    17. And many of them.
    18. For your life will add thousands of pages
    19. To the Living Book of God.

This canon began with a breakdown and a drawing —

the Tree of Life born in the psych ward, 2017.

From that moment forward, scripture flowed.