PERSPECTIVES

                    Poring over a neophyte's thesis
                    Exhaustively, exhaustingly;
                    Reading scientific hypotheses,
                    Surprisingly critically;
                    Perusing Keats' poetic passages
                    Exultantly yet enviously;
                    Crawling and evolving through the ages
                    Tortuously, tentatively;
                     Imagining my soul's place in Heaven
                    Vast; but in my mind, quite vaguely.
                    Expecting my faults will be forgiven--
                    Shamefully, but frankly--SURELY!