just beyond the wall

the normal vision of the human way

is what we bring at first into each mind

in hope that when we are by fate confined

in the beige cubes of ordinary day

no creeping horrors will come out to prey

on thoughts that must to wider worlds be blind

for fear of just exactly what we'd find

if honest brain was let come out to play

but there are dragons just beyond the wall

the child inside will know though adults fail

so often just to open up their eyes

or let their ears adjust to hear the call

of beings greater than the normal scale

moving their wings across the winter skies