Eighteen

Music: Fugue in F# Major
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Eighteen has no answers but her own, Intent on yielding nothing to despair. Glad tidings, if they come, must come alone, Having crossed the desert, bleak and bare. There is no heaven suitable for hope, Even in the ecstasy of dreams. Each moment is more limited in scope, Not one ounce more transcendent than it seems.