Beyond
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Beyond is the first poem from the short story collection Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe. It describes a person's opinion on the Halo rings and the implications of their existence. It was written by Jonathan Goff, while Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier created the artwork.
The poem[edit]
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There is majesty here
- Beyond reason
- Beyond understanding
Vast in its implications
- What wonders; offered around each new corner-
- Over every skyward peak-
- Or hidden deep; within in the shadows of each sunken valley
The questions raised
- In astonishment
- In fear-
If such glories can be divined, yet forgotten
- Lost to time;
- Strewn about the entirety of the stars
What then are we-
- Be us man,
- Or be us monster
In light of knowledge, so vast-
- So far beyond
- Superior; even to our dreams
What matter, then, our petty confrontations
- When weighed against the sins we sow
What matter, then, our fate amongst the cosmos, eternal
- In light of the Halo; its luminous glow
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Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
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