Beyond

Beyond is a poem from the short story collection "Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe," which describes one persons take on the Halo rings and the implications of their existance.

Transcript
There is majesty here
 * Beyond reason
 * Beyond understanding

Vast in its implications
 * What wonders; offered around each new corner-
 * Over every skyward peak-
 * Or hidden deep; within in the shadows of each sunken valley

The questions raised
 * In astonishment
 * In fear-

If such glories can be divined, yet forgotten
 * Lost to time;
 * Strewn about the entirety of the stars

What then are we-
 * Be us man,
 * Or be us monster

In light of knowledge, so vast-
 * So far beyond
 * Superior; even to our dreams

What matter, then, our petty confrontations
 * When weighed against the sins we sow

What matter, then, our fate amongst the cosmos, eternal
 * In light of the Halo; its luminous glow