a lone watch surveys

seeking very far ahead

a thick impenetrable haze

voids inordinately vast to detect

time immemorial set a face

candid, unjaded, perhaps ignorant

as distance drew near, the features

soul, heart, the mind, absent

and from the flesh of fool decayed

revealed a lesson, a teacher

most salient of points, like a blade

was not realized until the final hour

"do not cower, conceal and lie in wait

or one will never sprout, never flourish, never flower"