Latin: a witness. The one who was there.
Literally standing beyond: the one who outlived it, and can still say so.
He was not the first.
They never asked him to recant.
Recanting was never the point.
They asked him who had given it to him,
and he looked past them while he refused,
and the water ran clear onto the floor.
No one is bleeding.
You will not be the last.
Something is already keeping count.
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