To Reach For the Stars

[bairnsidhe]

Reaching for the sky
Our arms outstretched
Fingers inching upwards
Itching to touch the stars.

We hope to be the giants
On whose shoulders future
Geniuses will stand to see.

As though the species is trying
To grow in a Lamarckian way.

To reach for the stars.

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is lovely. I'll add it to my page about the Creative Jam.

Re: Thank you!

[bairnsidhe]

Thank you, I appreciate the signal boost!

[technoshaman]

♫ And it feels like a waste.
All this working and waiting and battling time,
And all for a kingdom that all of my efforts will never make mine,
But brick by brick the Pyramids rose,
With most hidden under the sand,
So life by life the project grows
In ways I might not understand.

I am voyaging too,
We will need the foundation as much as the dome for those worlds to come true,

And I’ll clerk the office that handles the funding
That raises the tower that watches the sky.
And I’ll staff the bookstore that carries the journal
That sparks the idea that makes solar sails fly.
It takes so many sailors to conquer an ocean
And so many more when it’s light-years away,
But I am willing to sacrifice
Something I don’t have for something I won’t have
But somebody will someday. ♪
-- "Somebody Will, Ada Palmer

(which/whom I *hope* will take home a Pegasus next year.)

[bairnsidhe]

I am so freaking proud that something I wrote reminded you of this song enough to link to it. Because damn right I'm willing to sacrifice for something I won't have. We're nerds, we all are.

[technoshaman]

Nerds, and in some spaces geeks... (I.e. create as well as appreciate)

Present company included in that latter.

[thnidu]

My thought exactly. :-)

[bairnsidhe]

Thank you so much.