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