The depth of a single poet's reach
Beneath the waves of time
Beyond the distance of the senses
She is right now
Right now
Above the slumlords
Above the marketeers
Above the silence
We are witness now
To those who possess life merely
Who would seem so reasonable
Who smile and smile
Who cheer the knife into the heart
Who slice and turn the blade
They drink blood in sacred oaths
Above the silence
In the harbor, looking east
Thus gifted, she raised light itself
A honeyed dream for silver hordes
Here you are welcome, she cried
Here, humanity, humanity
Tempest tossed, strewn as kelp upon the shore
Here the eyes are lifted, here the spirit soars
Here the answer at the golden door
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