Starlight Barricade

on this barren hillside - i struggle towards the firmament - reaching as high, as my earthbound feet would carry - often they would pirouette, waltz across the empty silent void - constantly reminding of what we might never achieve - we might never achieve - astrophysics puzzle thought - calculate impossibility - forging horizons for mankind - count the distant raging fires - count the walls before us - starlight as a barricade - as the patterns scatter, feelings of confinement wrap my soul - distance evades my grasp - stilling my dreams with the ground - silence the dreams in the dirt - stilling my dreams with the ground - silence the dreams in the dirt - every evening thoughts conceived - as I wed thee skies of night - diabolic infinity - mocks me with its haunting light - silence the dreams with the earth