While

I assembled this pattern
Of letters in pre-fab words
And learned English conventions,
The same old boring language,
The world was changing within
And without me for a space
Of time. The dictionary

Confirms that use of the phrase,
"A space of time": Old English,
Old Frisian, Gothic for "while."
Go back further and find "rest"
Was an earlier sense of the word,
While I resist both senses.
No rest left, no space in time.