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annotate org/moon.org @ 161:8f44e4061701
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author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:21:07 -0700 |
parents | 414a10d51d9f |
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rlm@109 | 1 #+BEGIN_VERSE |
rlm@109 | 2 Heaven is the darkness of a moon in a mirror |
rlm@109 | 3 In whose dark glass, long-lost love refracts into a promise |
rlm@109 | 4 And our incipient sorrows witness their imminent conclusion |
rlm@109 | 5 In mere gray inches of earth. |
rlm@109 | 6 |
rlm@109 | 7 But before this framed firmament, we can merely stand and sigh |
rlm@109 | 8 And see our lives begun knotted with their own undoing |
rlm@109 | 9 Before this stygian wall, this shroud of narcissus. |
rlm@109 | 10 |
rlm@109 | 11 Yet its stillness is not our stillness, |
rlm@109 | 12 And beyond the burnished gleaming edges of its flat sky |
rlm@109 | 13 A new sun rises |
rlm@109 | 14 Gilding the vast shoreline of our memory |
rlm@109 | 15 And the dawn-fogged peaks of our unflagging aspiration. |
rlm@109 | 16 #+END_VERSE |
rlm@109 | 17 |
rlm@109 | 18 # aspire next. |
rlm@109 | 19 # towards which we steadfastly tread. |
rlm@109 | 20 # steadfast aspiration. |