172. A History Of The Future - The Creator's Book Poem by Jaden Knight

172. A History Of The Future - The Creator's Book



In the void before time even existed
the Creator designed a special library
designed to hold all the books of a universe not yet made
pride of place was his very first book
made entirely the remains of asteroids from past galaxies
9000 miles tall and just as thick and wide
and in this book he began to write first

A History Of The Future was the title he wrote
in huge letters on the cover
it blazed with the fires of a dozen suns
he turned the page and began in detail
to carve how his universe would come to be
and how everything in it would come to its eventual end

For countless millennia did he inscribe the actions
of every star and the planets that would orbit them
eventually the book was finished and stored away
where none but he could find it

Every planet and star have their own unique volumes
comets and asteroids included
so too does every creature
from the microbes long since extinct
to organisms yet to be

So when every someone thinks themselves so high and mighty
just remind them that no matter how good they think they are
or how long they will live
their book is just tiny
insignificant to the greatest of all the books
known by it's creator as
A History Of The Future

Saturday, December 6, 2014
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Daniel Brick 20 January 2015

I love this poem! Everything about it: its dispassionate tone, the impersonal actions of the so-called creator-god, a book made up of cosmic objects, the sense that we puff ourselves up as if we in our much vaulted intelligence can measure ourselves against this violent universe. This poem is a genuine tribute to your imagination! ! And the cosmic books you imagined belong in one of Borges imaginary libraries - but could I get one of them for MY LIBRARY?

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Savita Tyagi 02 January 2015

Read your poem on Bri's page. Enjoyed it very much. Very well written.

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