Before rhythm existed, there were already rules.
A pattern in the mind, unaware it would one day be called understanding.
Then came the word — and the word did what it always does when it wants to be known: it began to arrange.
Noun, verb, subject, clause —
the first order,
the first instruction,
the first message built to last.
No one felt language.
It was learned — like etiquette, like architecture.
It didn’t happen — it was engineered.
A perfect…