What
Are
Your
Challenges
Here
Perhaps
Like
Dante’s
Seeker
You
Safely
Masked
Staff
In
Hand
As
Vaporous
Discharges
from
Mountains
of
Piled
Detritus
obscure
Your
Passage
You
Respond
To
An
Ultimate
test
Descend
To
the Inferno
Followed
By
Wonderings
Through
the Purgatorio
until
Purged
triumphant
Ascent
to stellar reaches
the Paradiso
where
You
Hold
True
The
Medieval
Maxim
lucero non uro
I shine not burn
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