"I was not put here by anyone in fear - I came alone as me: just an idea in a long chain of discovery, surrounded by the same - You. Sometimes your tide pulls me out to sea and I die in a thrashing curse. Sometimes we are kind.
More often, I doze... So far up the beach that those who try to reach are burnt alive in the searing heat of the desert of my dispassion. So far removed, I never hear the water - 'cept once or twice a month when I see a mirror.
And I refuse to believe in some of the things that are said to be here - let alone those that are not. I'm trying to change my direction; ours is pathetic in my own humble estimation... I love the planet - the great benign she-wolf, benefactor... Spinning gently on towards the red giant four aeons hence when all the rose gardens are consumed in the flash-fire of flying time... She'll leave alone to you"