There is an encroaching white
menacingly mighty
threatening to take everything around it
transforming everything
into its own elegant simplicity.

There is an expanse of white
a blinding basic view
with no details
no specificity
nothing that separates it
from anything else.
This white encompasses all
swallows colors and consideration
and creates a uniform beauty.

There is a white
brilliant
shiny
outstanding
that blankets the world
and has
since the beginning.

That white is invincible
unquenchable
and sometimes
– rarely
but sometimes –
it can be stopped by a single action
or a solitary word.