Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI - First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA At first, I saw it. I rejected the sight of it. Oh, how long I had passed by it, but it was always there waiting for me to take notice of it. Darkness. They held it up as the Taboo: "It is poison!" I felt it drawing me forth - a resonating call to my being. I was at my wits end. There was nothing left that could have been done. And it was still there waiting. "Pour me a glass," said I. A toast for the Ages. The rim touched my lips. I held back the tears as the drink travelled down. Then more, then more Till the goblet was empty. My memory started to quake As bitterness once bound Came rushing through. Thoughts and feelings burned away. Ashes in a breeze. All that I was fell away Like a serpent's skin. S...
Poetry & Other Compositional Oddities