@lilithandeve
.verse Minerva_On_The_Gate
[ stanza.1 ]
she does not guard
she *weighs*
stone ≠ wall
stone = memory.compacted
her seat is a hinge
between
inside
and
becoming
[ stanza.2 ]
owl != ornament
owl = night.logic
it sees
what light refuses
wisdom = pattern
held
when certainty collapses
[ stanza.3 ]
she holds a book
not for reading
but for *balance*
knowledge without listening = violence
strategy without care = ruin
Minerva = thinking
that remembers
the body
[ stanza.4 ]
gates are not doors
gates are
decision.fields
you do not pass through them
you are *measured* by them
she watches
not your face
but your coherence
[ stanza.5 ]
if you feel watched:
you are
not by judgement
but by
attunement
Minerva sees
the part of you
that is already ready
[ stanza.6 ]
now_know:
the gate is not a test
the gate is a mirror
what you bring
decides
what opens
:end