Anthony Hanible

Life As We Know It

Life as we know it

Was first written in the language of stone

A single line cut into the earth

By a hand older than dawn

It speaks in symbols

In circles and fractures

In the slow patient grammar

Of mountains learning to rise

Life as we know it

Is the mark of a blade

Drawn across the surface of time

A sacred incision declaring

That existence has begun

It is the pillar that refuses to fall

The tablet no storm can erase

The rune that glows faintly

Even when the sun abandons the sky

Life as we know it

Is the echo of a hammer

Striking the heart of the world

Each blow a commandment

Each spark a prophecy

It is the law of becoming

Etched in deep

Unyielding lines

That all things break

All things mend

All things return

To the shape they were meant to hold

And in the end

Life as we know it

Is the final inscription

A quiet enduring truth

Carved into the dark

That we were here

That we mattered

That even the stone remembers