Rays of Starlight

If we were fish, we could not swim,
Nor live our days at Cora’s whim.
We differ as the sea from land,
Which write men’s epitaphs on sand. 

Transfixed by time, we hardly mean
What the pale universe has seen
Embodied many times before:
Dim rays of starlight, nothing more. 

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Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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