The highest hope we can aspire
Is to light a lasting fire.
To put to pen some fragile phrase
That may transcend our fleeting days.
Mayhaps bequeath a tiny fragment
A word, a line or tacit remnant,
To reach across the tide of time
And touch a soul, perhaps with rhyme.
Charles J. Kasper
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/legacy-4/
