Restore

How do we restore**

Something never seen

An existence from before

That may have never been

Buildings of our dwellings

Standing with the changes

Over time, a conscious swelling

Centuries opening door hinges

How do we restore

Without repair or maintain

Co-creation into place of more

From waxing or from waning?

Like a sculptor who Sees

The sculpture in the rock

Restoration here may be

Outside any concept of clock

To reclaim a complete state

Bring forth anew, art of space

An Architect—raison d’etre

Hallowed be thy place of grace

How to restore the Earth? solutions

Sculpted from the yet unseen

On a planet of natural evolution

Revolutionary creative states of being

**inspired by a quote found in the crypt of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris currently under restoration from fire. “To restore a building is not to repair, maintain or re-create. It is to reclaim a complete state that may have never existed before”—Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné de L'architecture française du xT au xvi siècle, tome 8, 1854 to 1868