A Thought: Maybe there is no grand crescendo to the human symphony Maybe life ends, and begins, on a prolonged refrain A steady, repeating, fading rhythm The only flourish of a lonely universe Trying desperately, in its way, to find a dance partner for the darkness Eternity; our veiled mistress waiting past the mist For the light to outrun an endlessly unfurling landscape of black The space between The mimicry of a photograph, and the true shape of the memory That a frame can never quite squeeze Those lost edges lie in wait Just beyond a waking moment, and the closing scene of our final dream A place not lost, but yet to be found That is all, For now.