A Paradox of Absence

I am a thousand endings
inside a single beginning.

And in this storm
I come to you without arriving.
I leave without departing.

I was anointed
by the very thing
that unmade me.

I am the last breath
of an unborn bird
the first silence
of an existence without a name.

I am born
from the absence
of my own arrival.

And in this paradox
I forgive myself.