I have not stopped dreaming—

looking out star gazing beyond

these feeble limitations small 

that would hold me not to earth,

which is my soul’s place incarnate,

but to the ways of men that desire 

to tie me down like a tethered beast

waiting for the glistening steel to fall.

 

This is my dreaming—stars upon stars,

expanding—out to the whole universe itself.

 

2/5/2020