Why trespass so long in a body? Is the soul so vain that it needs to fill a space, never moving to be free both in dreams and in joys, hinged to this heart like the shadow to my heels? Like the shadow to my heels, why a spirit bound to anything, not chasing distant stars, not moving in eternity, not looking for a vacant space to spread itself unbound?
The first line is taken from Christine Gosnay's poem, "Desire."