Figure D20 TELOS

From this small fire, to an end of days.

If universal growth had been subdued

By gravity, to fall back in a blaze,

Would time reverse? Picture a vision crude,

Men rising from their graves and puking food.

Yet may such simple fancy run amiss.

The GREAT RETURN, our unity renewed,

May bring not fiery doom, but synthesis,

A richer world. No meagre consolation, this.