pocketful of spare change

we hear so much about how limitless the human is
the indomitable spirit
but indomitable is measured by degree of dominance
nothing more
it could extend only just barely past all history,
we slipping gradually towards that breaking wave
of intensity
which will bring us down
will best us

but can we springboard off of each other,
you and i
devise some infinite sonic-the-hedgehog gravity cheat
some method, overlooked,
whereby we can keep rising, *sproinnng!*
we can access the secret areas
and even places beyond them,
beyond borders, limits
beyond plans
if there is such a thing
beyond ourselves

perhaps what so many seek
in nobility, spirit, the like
is succeeding in surpassing limits.
but how we aim now, bumbling
it would be no great honor to make it beyond ourselves
by some oddity of chance
some shortcut; wormhole
we would probably shatter in the higher frequencies
the mind broken
cyclical, like a record.
if we really want to bring ourselves there
and achieve, and feel that achievement justified
irises flaring
it must be slow and steady
we have to know the pain of trying, failing;
the real motivator in learning.