Eternity (Howard)

I am older than the world: Older than life. The race of man is a babe in the cradle of Time. I am Alpha and Omega.

The first and the last; The circle without end. I am a serpent with its tail in its mouth; I am a triangle whose tips overlap a circle.

I am the older sister of Destiny. Before man was, I was: And after man has vanished from the Universe, I will be. Time is a phantom, built by the mind of man; There is no Time. The thing that men call Time flies before my wind; Time has beginning, duration, ending. I am that which was, is and shall be; Unceasing, Neverending, Eternal. Number all the sands of all the shores of all the worlds Of all the Universes. And let each sand represent a million centuries; And they all shall not be a single instant Of Eternity.

For I am numberless and unnumbered, Eternity had no beginning nor shall there be ending. I am Alpha and Omega. That which was, is and shall be; Numberless and unnumbered.