Meditation #6 -- what should have been
The stillborn world that should have been
The world in which I should have lived
That never was, so never seen.
Trapped in this dreary changeling-land
I dream the world I would have known
If mankind's rise had gone unchecked
If Alexandria's seed had grown.
Where Rome and Athens never fell
Where cross and crescent never rose
Where now those farthest stars are ours
Where truth and beauty man still knows.
But my true home I cannot reach
For things that never were lie far
Across the sea of yearning dreams
From grey and dismal things that are.
posted by Infidel753 at 4:28 PM
9 Comments:
Excellent - each time I read it, I like it more. I wish that world existed.
Did you write this? It's great -- love it!
Jenny_o: Thanks! I appreciate that. Perhaps I'll elaborate more later.....
Debra: Thank you! Yes indeed -- my "world as it should have been", my words.
I like this very much--imagining a consistent enlightenment without the endarkenment of superstitious eras. I wonder about this other universe, too.
Nice!
My fav part may be that of .. 'where cross and crescent never rose...'. Really.
XOXO
WOW! I'm impressed! Great words ... great thoughts.
Vixen: It haunts me, to think how far we would have come by now if not for those thousand wasted years.....
Sixpence: It's beyond calculation how much pain and horror could have been avoided, if those twisted faiths and their vile and arrogant dogmas and taboos had never existed.
Nan: Thanks! That means a lot -- especially from a published author.
Wow, amazing! You are a poet, too :)
Martha: :-)
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