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The creator (poem)

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The creator (poem)

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In honor of World Poetry Day, this is something I came up with. Click here to hear me read it. I don’t know if its any good, but it came out of me. The formatting is intentional, but buggy. Feel free to comment if it looks out of place (some of the line spacing is off as far as I can tell but not the indentations).

I know what it is

to be afraid of what I have created.

To lack the understanding

needed to care for it.

To determine the application

of my technology

 

Others will misapply it.

    Others will tear it apart.

        Others will not understand.

And yet,

I continue creating…

It languishes inside me.

That which drives to be spoken into existence.

How can I speak that life

and death

into existence?

 

How can I know which it will be?

Life or Death?

                                                     Nay, I know it is death.

      But I must bring it to life,

             or I shall find my own death.

 
 

It will eat me if I do not speak it.

     It will drive me insane.

         It will push me out of myself.

 
 

How can one control one’s own mind without emptying it?

Yet, I have learned to beat the Pythagorean cup.

It ever expands and I cannot push back

because I don’t want to.

 
 

I crave knowing & understanding & wisdom.

Because I just want to connect with you,

even if you can only connect to part of me.

 

Who can know all that I know?

            There is no one.

 

Alone and hungry to grow further

to stretch beyond what might be the limit

       more & more there is no end.

 

And so I must create

        to communicate

              hopefully

                  with that

                      which I have created

                           for before you, I am.

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