Even in the best of times

in the best of times

(even in dickens world)

chocolate still melts in the sun

and relationships are marred by pride and disrepair

in the best of times

everything that rises converges (with gravity)

and the long night's journey is met by clouds of morning

scattered sheets and the burgeoning doom of depravity

for in the best of times

life is a transcendent amalgam of struggle and symphony