rlm@109: #+BEGIN_VERSE
rlm@109: Heaven is the darkness of a moon in a mirror
rlm@109: In whose dark glass, long-lost love refracts into a promise
rlm@109: And our incipient sorrows witness their imminent conclusion
rlm@109: In mere gray inches of earth.
rlm@109: 
rlm@109: But before this framed firmament, we can merely stand and sigh
rlm@109: And see our lives begun knotted with their own undoing
rlm@109: Before this stygian wall, this shroud of narcissus.
rlm@109: 
rlm@109: Yet its stillness is not our stillness,
rlm@109: And beyond the burnished gleaming edges of its flat sky
rlm@109: A new sun rises
rlm@109: Gilding the vast shoreline of our memory
rlm@109: And the dawn-fogged peaks of our unflagging aspiration.
rlm@109: #+END_VERSE
rlm@109: 
rlm@109: # aspire next.
rlm@109: #  towards which we steadfastly tread.
rlm@109: # steadfast aspiration.