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Make Aim To the Stars

Make aim to the stars

The motion of the tide and the movement therein
   Beckons on to me,
Silent as it moves over the oceans width
   Gentle as a wind from the sea
Mysterious is the future of our lives
   Only a semblance of what’s to be;
Through the miracle of our own emotion
   Or the brilliance of the setting sun;
For in the time it takes to aim at a star
   We may only get to the moon

Here is the passion our thoughts beheld
   Measured by an existent promise’
For a sound so soft is the prodigy of one’s life
   Making faith from our own religion,
Capture the sight in a twilit bright 
     Twinkling from centuries past
Yet the wisdom we gain from our dark privations
     Is held near the infinity of space,
But we reach what’s lit from a billion years
     Like the measure a second inspired

Look to the wisdom in the extent of our lives
   And relinquish all that remains,
For the strongest belief is held deep in the heart
   Like those that shine from a star;
Soft is a light that beams through darkness
   Reflecting aged past…
When held secure is the aspect of life
   And the realm of its desire,
For in the time it takes to aim at a star
   We may only get to the moon 


                                         By m. norton

Copyright © Mark Norton | Year Posted 2021

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