A cracking mind's
Most perfect find
Clawing upwards
Through the brine

A walking dream
An almost rhyme
Closest to
That fixed shrine

Above all else
Shining down
Too steep to see
Never quite found

Never to reach
With climbing vines
An asymptote
Rising blind

A formless desire
A pathless road
Bowed before
An empty throne

A need so strong
A drowning wave
Bleeding water
Strait passed the grave

My greatest work
My longest fall
Almost perfect
Not perfect all