Lady of Silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried, reposeful
The single rose is now the garden
where all loves end.
Terminate torment
of love unsatisfied.
The greater torment
of love satisfied.
End of the endless journey to no end.
Conclusion of all that is inconclusible.
Speech without word
and word of no speech.
Grace to the Mother
for the garden
where all loves end.
-- T.S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"
