My dearest reader, seconds ago, before your <br />Decision to turn the page, there was nothing. <br />These very words were hidden away and thus <br />Unseen, to all intents did not exist: <br />Just like the beauty of the Jovian Moons <br />`Til “Voyager” beamed those pictures back to Earth. <br /> <br />For You have brought this page to life - yes You and only You! <br />You bring along a wealth of memories of your own, <br />Your feelings, thoughts, regrets and sorrows, joys <br />And fears, your hopes and fantasies. <br />You have the mountains of your mind: <br />Your personal rivers, clouds and suns: flowers and gasometers! <br />Landscapes, dreams and nightmares of your very own. <br />And me, as you sit reading this, I might be with you right now, <br />Dead and buried, or maybe miles away. <br /> <br />To you I give the role of God: to breathe your life upon this page. <br />Take you away, dear reader, and there’s nothing: formless void. <br />Yet now, together, you may join me, in a realm <br />Where Life, though challenged by Evil, <br />Is Warded by our Love.<br /><br />Paul Butters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hello-reader/
