purgatory persists,
perpetual,
perhaps-

proposed
an internal age ago
eternal emotes
specified by souls
time has told
and
still tells

the always, almost
something
strived for station
unattained,
and might be
unable

sighs,
recalling shorter days,
and longer,
of this,
and some other latitude
and,
the mortal sway
a muse displayed
unintended

and the fool, now past,
once
so present