From the beginning
Man has sought keys
To Mastery, recognition, and success
To the heart, to love between the sexes
To self-understanding and inner freedom
To learning, like Descartes, that “I think, therefore I am”
To this mystery of being
To the cosmos from where the Divine speaks to Earth
To beauty that could save the world
From itself.
Here hang keys
To an old and decaying city
Once they meant
Welcome.