Stephen is a web developer, Bahá'í, and interfaith activist in St. Paul, Minnesota. He likes to write about religion, social justice, sustainability, science, programming, &c.

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poetry, prose, and other strings of words · 1993 - 2003

The Academy

Number 127

June 27, 1997

There exists a spark
that mustn't ever die,
There exists a tower
forever hanging in the sky,
There exists a realm
where the spirits chase
The understanding of vastness
never with haste.

There exists a place
within our mind,
A place barred from none—
but difficult to find,
There exists a land were
answers are found,
A land where never
must we leave the ground.

It is nowhere but everywhere
and anywhere you make it,
It is restless thought
wherever you take it,
Is it the turning of
a page from one long dead?
Or conversation between
the living instead?

It is the ruminations
of the blessedly old
And the feelings of
youth who don't fit the mold,
It is everything—
and I must not lose it.