What length are days so dearly trodden, Riddled in stocks, museums of mind, How can one soul with heart commend And play these martial fields unkind? We are wages cast about four corners And spun to globe of coordinates web, Sailing by moon, lit oceans of scorn, Rudderless, blind— innocently led, Yet here, one star, the sun is a beacon, We are bathed each day in ****** light And gifted to morn with new beginnings, From dreams we wake with newborn sight And gods watch over with stellar eyes, We are babes knowing— cradled in sky. .