THE LOST LINES AND THE LOST PAGES LEAVE NO TRACE <br /> <br />The lost lines and the lost pages leave no trace <br />There is no way to recovery <br />It is a one – way journey after all <br />Those who had hoped to live forever by recording all that they have ever done <br />Have been painfully surprised by the disappearance of the universe <br />That Asteroid that landed in the heart of all we are <br />Or perhaps that chain of violence in which our own Ugliness did us in <br />Or perhaps some other manufactured artificial virus <br />Or who knows what and why <br />There is simply too much future Time <br />Not to die at some point in it <br />The lost lines and lost pages are small and insignificant <br />We are in all we are also <br />Small and insignificant <br />Why God made us and what God really does <br />We will never truly understand <br />Small is all and we are smaller even than the smallest part of any thing <br />Nothing is and nothing was and nothing will be <br />Only now in the silence <br />As I anguished write this <br />Not believing wholly a word I have said <br />I wonder again why God made me <br />And if and how and what and why and where <br />We are all just not anything real or good or true or beautiful or love.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-lines-and-the-lost-pages/
