I
No light within the sphere.
Beyond, unknowable strive.
Unusual without warning
its puzzling sight appears,
its guise, a beam of light,
bringing that only morning
through hardened atmosphere
from a fissure open high
amidst the sealed night vaulting.
Randomly pointed afar
revealing thin silhouettes.
Unveiled the true magnitude
of the grounds that appear
below the dark dome, and set
cardinal points to be viewed.
Suddenly as it’d come, the glare
closed the tiny crack and left
the lands to large solitude.
II
Then came the time to sustain
journeys in obscurity.
Reckoning the steps to take,
stumbling across the terrain
through countless days in fatigue.
Scant progress yet profuse aches.
Counting out loud to arrange
invisible maps, to seek
uncharted places again.
Clearing thoughts along the path,
while in the middle of all
the climbing ways in hardship,
came unnoticed dim contrasts.
The shadows under the vault
had slowly been departing,
so there were spotted at last
land contours under a soft
daybreak glow that had started.
III
high up there,
the round ceiling of the sphere
turned somehow to glassy clear
sprayed in depth with starry blur.
Far ahead, that bright.
CHORUS
Sudden white light shaft signaling at vague vistas.
Etched in memory the thin outlines of ranges around.
Once revealed its message, it sealed up the rift and left
not so much a gift but a reminder and behest.
Grueling quests carried on with no trace of clarity,
sounding out the grounds along, to make way in the unknown.
Subtly on the way, the somber veil dwindled its heft
so much that a distant dawn scattered its extent.
Vivid night of fresh breeze and soft sounds of hidden streams.
Long way still, marked by a constellation of three stars.
Call-out to pursue one enigmatic light’s request.
Far ahead the glowing crevice opens the ascent.
