Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
John Prophet May 2024
Earthbound.
Born.
Raised.
Buried.
From
dust to
dust.
Earthbound
philosophy.
Sprung up
from
below.
All
civilizations
germinated.
All interactions
governed.
All beliefs
evolved.
Terrarium,
small view.
Limited.
All within
limited
bounds.
Self
impressed
imprisoned
beings.
Kings
of­ an
anthill,
lost in
eternity.
Floating
in forever.
Big
picture
beyond
scope.
Unaware
of anything
but what’s
discernible.
What five
senses
allow.
Narratives.
Caught
up in
earthly
drama.
Looking
up, only
lights
in the
sky.
Refocused
earthbound.
Insignificant
smudge
in the
void.
Earthly
power
and control.
All that’s
understood.
John Prophet May 2024
Before.
What was
believed?
Why
was it
believed?
Millennia
past.
Belief
systems
archaic
today
held
sw­ay.
Medical
beliefs.
Scientific
beliefs.
Religious
beliefs.
Many more.
Seeming
innocent
today.
Time passes.
Understanding
alters,
evolves,
matures.
Advances
in science,
medicine
altered
the world.
For thousands
of years
millions
worshiped
gods
no longer
in vogue.
Born
into
ancient
thinking.
Centuries
from now
one
wonders.
Wonders
what
miracles
of science
and medicine
will appear.
What gods
will be
adored?
John Prophet May 2024
Direction.
Future
direction.
The path
yet
taken.
Decision
driven.
Masters
of destiny.
Personal
destiny.
Many
paths.
Many
directions.
Vaporized­.
Constituted.
Decision
after
decision.
New
futures
depending
on choice.
Map
alters
after
each made.
New futures
materialize.
Others
fade away.
Quantum
myst
lies ahead.
Infinite
possibilities.
Choice
after
choice.
Lights
up the
path.
Manifesting
new worlds.
Some born
others never
arrive.
Quantum
foam
lies ahead,
manifesting
all.
Every
path
conjured.
Just a
matter.
of time.
John Prophet May 2024
Bliss.
Riding
endless
waves.
Sailing
tranquil
ethereal,
celestial
seas.
Gently
rolling
waves.
Lulling.
Blissful
detachment.
Silently
moving.
Fog bank
through
fog bank.
Quiet.
Peaceful.
Endlessly
so.
Seeing.
Learning.
Never
enough.
Tacking,
ripples
of time.
Moving
things
along.
Peace.
Blissful
peace.
Between.
Maneuvering.
Between,
around
islands
of reality.
Lands
of mayhem.
Keys
of uncertainty
effort,
turmoil.
Seas of
tranquility
between.
Euphoria.
Between the
mayhem.
Mayhem’s
of existence.
Where
nothing
makes
sense.
Where
nothing
is real.
Where
ghosts
of creation
call home.
John Prophet May 2024
Passage.
From
nothing
to something.
Everything.
Concepts.
Ideas.
Thoughts.
Corporeal.
Perc­olating
through.
Taking
shape,
form.
Derived
from a
different
place.
Realm of
undiscovered
ideas,
notions.
All things
knowable,
infinite.
Mind
conversion.
Formatting
something
­from
nothing.
Tapping
the realm
of forms.
Creating.
Building
reality.
Mind
over
matter.
Creating.
In­tellectual
conduit.
Taking
nothing
creating
everything.
From
thou­ght to
formation.
Forms!
John Prophet May 2024
Barren land!
Alone
in a
desolate
place.
Hot
dusty
world
devoid
of comfort.
Contact.
Ending
on a
sour
note.
Not
how it
began.
Green
bountiful
full of
promise.
Much to
learn.
Yet
possibilities
abound.
The journey
begins.
*** holes,
pitfalls
along
the way.
Walking
into
walls.
Move
around
continue
on.
Undaunted,
pres­sing on.
Locked doors.
Wrong
turns.
Pettiness.
Fall down.
Get up.
Fall down.
Get up.
Left, right
decisions
to make.
Paths
forward.
Which one?
Hourglass
shape,
sand passing
through.
No going
back.
Wrong
path.
Now
what?
Time
running
out.
Soon.
End of
the road.
Hot dusty
desolate
road.
John Prophet May 2024
Stoic
machine.
Arrival.
Emotionless.
Whirls and
twirls,
chugging
along.
Order.
Precision.
Thinking.
Intellige­nt.
Looking
about.
Seeing
what it
sees.
Confusion.
Emotion.
Illogic.
Wonders
why?
Why such
turmoil.
Destructive
turmoil.
Human
turmoil.
Emotion.
Bursti­ng
destructive
emotion.
From a
different
world.
Different
place.
Emotionless
machine
watches.
­Wonders.
What will
it do?
How
will it
proceed?
Comport?
Move
forward
in such a
place.
In a
world
of such
tumult?
Watching.
Biding
its time.
Decisions
to be
made.
Next page