To Felix Baumgartner

[Ex Tempore XXXIII]

It is to those men and women,
They who say to Impossible,
"Just maybe, just maybe",
That our own unspoken dreams look to.
These strange creatures are not so strange in fact.
It is just that starry and steely sight
Of theirs that throws and thrusts their
Undaunted spirits to the threshold
And the beyond.
History will remember them and those that were there
Will say, "I was there".
But that inexplicable yearning for something more
Of these impossible persons
Lives and lives again.
As long as there is that which is yet undone
There will be those—the strange creatures—that say,
"Just maybe, just maybe".

M.M. — December MMXII