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John Prophet Sep 2023
Dark
sky.
Foreboding
shadows.
Horizon
closing in.
Technology.
Distracting,
confusing.
Head
in the
clouds.
Rudder
out of
hand.
Society,
hopelessly
off
course.
Waves
rocks,
running
a ground.
Future
rapidly
approaching.
Past,
soon a
forgotten
thing.
Minds,
lost
in the
virtual.
Mesmerized.
Narratives,
immersed.
Puppet
masters.
Bl­inding.
Controlling.
Hopelessly
adrift.
Lemmings.
Sheep.
Critical­
thinking,
independent
thought
crushed.
Thinking
fixed,
controlle­d.
Battle
for the
soul.
Lost!
Marching
orders
planet wide.
What was,
will never
be allowed.
One world.
One way.
Humanity,
a thing
of the
past.
John Prophet Oct 2021
Dawn till
dusk.
Eyes open,
it begins.
Winding
things up.
Kick start
the engine.
Scurrying
around.
Getting things
done.
Wondering,
trying to
make sense.
Sorting
it out.
Wondering,
how?
Wondering,
why?
Rushing
around.
Making things
happen.
Following
the script,
the rules.
Jungle,
societal,
no
time to
lose.
No
time to
waste.
Pounding
the
treadmill.
Pounding!
Spinning
the wheel.
Get things
done.
Contemplation,
little time.
Scurrying
around,
making
it happen.
Winding down.
Deep breath.
Dusk
approaches.
Just
over the
hill.
Looking back,
spark of
thought.
Curious.
What was
the point?
No answer.
Doesn’t matter.
Get in the
wheel.
Scurrying
around
getting things
done.
Then sleep.
Eternity’s
dusk.
John Prophet Sep 2022
Day
by day.
The story’s
written.
Pages
completed.
Turned.
Slowly
the book’s
produced.
Chapter
by chapter
life’s
story
played out.
On pages
decisions
made.
Written.
Autobiographical.
Decision
by decision.
Twists and
turns.
The story
unfolds.
Authors
of
fate.
Personal
fate.
At the
end, the
story’s
done.
Manuscript
complete.
Self
authored.
No rewrites
allowed.
John Prophet Sep 2021
Days.
One after
the other.
Each
a cell
in a
long
running
movie.
A living
movie.
Preordained,
predetermined
drama.
Each day
a cell
In a roll,
spinning
roll.
Canned.
Already
in the
can.
A movie
already
made.
Playing
out
one day
to the
next.
History,
now,
tomorrow.
Written,
produced,
actors in
place.
Living
their roles.
Movie
plays on.
Already
in the
can.
Infinite
movies
in the
can.
Everything
as written.
John Prophet Aug 2023
Deafening.
Eons past.
Faceless
millions
charge.
Fields of
glory.
Fields
of horror.
Fields
of death.
Warriors
of old.
Shields
raised.
Swords
drawn.
Following
orders.
Untold
stories.
Charging
straight
into
hell.
Blood
soaked.
Sweat,
tears
mud
mixed.
What
story
tell?
What for
death?
Fallen
warriors.
Young men
ceasing
to exist,
struck
down.
Progeny’s
denied.
Lineages
severed.
Futures
obliterated.
Destroyed.
Lost in
the mist
of time.
Careening
headlong.
Still
to this
day.
To what
end?
John Prophet Nov 2020
Underlying
fields.
Fields of
energy.
Fields of
consciousness.
Quantum
fields of
intelligence
permeates
spacetime.
Permeates,
parallels
all parallel
fields of
existence.
Always was,
always will be.
All that appear
mere ghostly
potential,
manifestations
of
possibilities.
All at once
everywhere
every time.
All at once.
Material
appearance
bubbles up,
exists for
a time.
Reabsorbed.
Echoes of
intelligence
consciousness.
Fields of
understanding,
infinite
fields of
consciousness.
Quantum
field potential
everywhere,
every time.
Manifestations
of potential,
momentarily
appearing then
vanishing back.
Reabsorbed.
Back to the
fields of
quantum
consciousness.
Personal illusion,
consciousness  
does not die
simply
reabsorbed.
Death,
merely an
illusion
of quantum
field dynamics.
John Prophet Dec 2018
Deep into
the bowels
of existence
I look.
Deep into
time.
Deep into
substance.
Deep into
reality I stare.
Others stare
back.
Others looking.
Throughout
time.
Others looking
for answers.
Answers into
why.
Why is there
anything?
Deeper I
journey.
Wondering
what’s at
the core,
the center
of it all.
Fog,
is what
I see, the
quantum fog
of probabilities.
The substrate
of reality
uncertain.
Mystery
is what
I found.
Mystery is
all there is!
John Prophet Apr 2023
Deeper
fundamental.
Looking
in a
mirror.
Reflections
of the
current
seen.
Reflections
of ten
thousand
ancestral
generations.
Each pairing
leading
to the next.
Five hundred
million
genetic
packages
per event.
Each package
a different
person
represents.
Correct
swimmer
out of
five hundred
million
needing
to hit
the target.
Bang the
gong.
Ten thousand
times
consecutively,
for
reflection
seen.
Any pairing
difference
anywhere
along the
way, or
another
package
delivered.
A
different
reflection
occurs.
Ther­e are
no odds
that resonate
such a
thing.
A deeper
fundamental
at play.
John Prophet Feb 2022
Deep
Subtleties.
Experience.
Navigation.
Charting
existence.
Subt­le
in nature.
Years in
development.
Pathways
rewired.
Processing.
Different
approache­s.
Not,
understood
by less
traveled.
Experience,
wisdom’s
furrowed
rows.
Path
less
trod­den.
Wisdom,
experience
based.
Earned
not
assumed.
John Prophet Aug 2019
Deep
  dark time,
falling
further and
further into
  the void.
Cold time.
Colder and
colder as it
sinks,
sinks into
something
  ancient,
something
timeless.
  Looking up
fading light,
  never to be
seen again.
Looking down,
darkness,
  cold darkness.
  Never ending
  fall, never
ending darkness.
Never ending
cold.
Deep time
freezes everything.
  Fixes it in time.
Ultimate
destination.
John Prophet May 11
Deep time.
Ripples
in the
dark.
Fluctuations.
Quantum
fluctuations.
Ghosts
from
below.
­Bubbling
up.
Knots
of energy
congealed.
Become
whole.
Solid.
Sentient.
Negligible
exist­ence.
Negligible
time.
Flash,
Gone.
Derezzes.
Ripples
back.
Aethe­r
bound.
Dissipates.
Moving on.
Deep time,
frozen time,
takes no
notice.
Irrelevant.
Eons
pass.
Never
to be
seen
again.
Eternally
so!
John Prophet Apr 2023
Deep
within.
All things
found.
All of
creation
inside
a soul.
Good
and evil
bud from
the same.
Infinite
iterations
bringing
forth.
No gods
create
such things.
From
hearts
and minds
where they
reside.
Navigating
complexities
the challenge
be.
How
strong
the moral
fiber
forged?
Corruption
darkens
heroes
stand.
Wishing
peac­e
yet
failing
plan.
Across
the land
dark winds
storm.
Moral
courage
holding
ground.
Ultimate
battle
from
d­eep within.
John Prophet Dec 2016
What is God?
What is a god?
It’s all relative.
It’s all semantics really.
To those who wandered this globe fifty thousand years ago we’d be gods.
Would those who live fifty thousand years from now be looked on as “Gods” by us?
How far into the future, into the past or out into space would we need to peer to find the God?
In fifty thousand years could we produce virtual constructs with artificially intelligent beings? If so, would we be their gods?
Could these beings we produced evolve to create their own virtually intelligent beings?
If so, how far down the rabbit hole could it possibly go? How many layers of gods could their possibly be?
Perhaps more than can be possibly known!
John Prophet Oct 2021
Deities.
Attempts
to understand,
make
sense.
Sense of
things,
existence.
What
can’t be
understood.
Attributed.
Deities define.
Deities control.
Deities explain.
Constructs of
limitations.
Deities,
serving
a purpose.
Failure
to know,
comprehend.
Big place
the infinite.
Beyond
capability.
Impossible
to grasp.
Deities
bring order,
light
to the
darkness.
Scaffolding
to hold,
build upon.
Stabilizers.
Easing
fears,
concerns.
Deities,
human
designe­d.
Created
to
ease the
pain of
existence.
John Prophet Aug 2020
Wonderment.
Understanding
lacking.
Why?
Existence.
Why?
How?
How to
explain,
understand?
Spinning
in reality.
Trying
to make
sense.
Good.
Evil.
Dwelling
in the
soul.
Why?
How to
explain?
Manifestations
of the
observed.
Of existence.
Deities.
Good, evil.
Needed to
explain.
Coercing,
controlling
telling what
to do.
Explaining
the
unexplainable.
Praying,
following,
avoiding.
C­ontrolling
hearts and
minds.
Turmoil.
Understanding
in turmoil.
Deity steadies.
Something
to hold
on to.
Life raft.
Life raft
in the
void, darkness.
Holding
the monsters
at bay.
Helping
make sense
of the
senseless.
Bulwark to
oblivion.
Hope.
Irrational hope.
Last line
of defense.
John Prophet Jan 2023
Delusion.
Center
of the
universe.
Made
in the
image of.
Deluded.
Self
impressed.
Self
important.
By whose
measure?
Nothing
to measure
against.
Internal
data points
nothing
more.
Autobiographical.
Gazing
in the
mirror.
Seeing
all there
is to
see.
Swirling
in the
cosmic
wind.
Adrift
in false
reality.
Self
inflicted
delusion.
Grappling.
Dancing
with ghosts.
Nothing
is what
it seems.
Inhabiting
the finite.
Simple
place
to be.
John Prophet Oct 2020
Important
little things.
Scurrying.
Scurrying
around.
Acting out.
Delusions
of grandeur.
Deadly
serious.
Jockeying
for position.
Stepping
over, on.
Win at
all costs.
Ends justifies
the means.
Self important
little things.
Ant hill
of existence.
Meaningless.
Going where?
Achieving what?
Hurting who?
Important
little beings,
scurrying
about.
Scurrying about
in the
meaningless.
Meaningless
oblivion.
John Prophet Feb 2023
Dependency.
Addiction.
Global
affliction.
Can’t
put down,
walk away.
Depression
when
deprived.
Arms
length.
Grip on
mind, and
manner.
Shaping
thought.
Shaping
behavior.
Alien in
nature and
reflection.
In the
middle of
transformational
change.
Happening
everywhere,
passing
through­
the veil.
Tapping
minds and
souls.
Tsunami
passing
over all.
No turning
back.
Only
acceleration,
full throttle
from here.
John Prophet Jan 2023
Design.
Control.
Coded.
Programmed.
Populations
so designed.
Alphas.
Betas.
Gammas.
Deltas.
Epsilons.
Designated
soc­ietal
stratum.
Genetically
arranged.
Predetermined
rolls.
Each
ni­che
thus
filled.
Civilization
constructed.
Coded
by design.
Propagation,
genetically
laid out.
One of
each
to move
things along.
Attraction
baked in.
Everything
preprogrammed.
Destiny by
design.
Infinite
threads
combined.
John Prophet Jul 2018
Look
around.
A world
designed.
Billions of
years in the
making.
Fine
tuned, made
perfect.
Flowing water.
Warm temperatures.
Sustainable.
Look around
a world
designed.
All things
made
came from
Gaia.
All things
forged,
came out
of the
ground
through the
mind of
man.
Cradle of
existence
provided everything
needed
for the
mind of
man.
Take a
look around
everything
designed.
John Prophet Oct 2021
Despotism.
Power.
Power
to control.
Tell others
what
to do.
Believe.
How
to behave.
Imposition
of will,
control,
power.
Step
out of
line.
Do not
dare.
Independent
thought.
Do not
dare.
Follow
their lead.
No choice.
Despots
human
in design.
Once
in place
difficult
to dislodge.
Worlds at
war.
Outcome
unsure.
Historic
despots.
Future
despots.
Tech
de­spots.
All
the same.
Human
In design.
Don’t be
fooled.
Snake
charmers all.
Vigilance.
John Prophet Feb 23
Despots.
History.
Replete
with those
who’d
control.
Hoist
their
views,
beliefs
onto the
masses.
Today.
Look
around.
Easy
to see.
It’s everywhere.
Manipulation.
Not militarily.
Technological.
Mind melding.
Brainwashing.
One way
or the
other.
Battle zone.
Monocrats.
As with
days of
old.
Battling
for control.
Technology,
waves of
influence
circling the
globe.
Altering
perceptions.
Rewiring
thought.
Pitting one
against the
other.
As with
the past
yet more
insidious,
dangerous.
Minds
in a
vice grip.
Addicted
to the
screen.
Unable
to let
go.
New despots,
same as
the old!
John Prophet May 2023
Destination.
Ultimate.
Myriad
possible.
Future.
Decision
based.
O­ne after
the next
choices
made.
Tweaking
the
journey.
Circuitous.
Charting
the­ course.
Altering
the way.
Decisions,
one then
another.
All
in sequence
keying
results.
Different
sequences.
Different
results,
­destinations.
Master of
destiny.
Tacking,
altering
direction.
Destination.
Captain
of fate.
Master
of destiny.
Ending up
where
decisions
lead.
John Prophet Sep 2023
Destination.
Path
forward.
Creation’s
road map.
Difficult
to read.
Heading
unsure.
Which
path
to travel?
Frozen
in place.
Not sure.
Which way
to turn?
What
road?
What
direction?
Moving
forward
decisions
to make.
Side
by side
iterations
flow.
Different
results
each.
Infinite
journeys
a­ll made
by one.
Over and
over
the story
plays
out.
Unlimited
lines of
approach,
astral
planes
to explore.
Infinite
forks
in the
road.
Travels
everlasting.
Creations
intent?
Unknown!
John Prophet Dec 2022
Destiny.
Future.
Intelligence.
Morphing,
striving.
Struggling
pat­h.
Bubbling
from the
primordial.
Simple to
complex.
Searching,
growing.
Source
changing
evolving.
Biologi­cal
to
artificial.
Blending.
Techno Sapiens
emerge.
Source
irrelevant.
Intelligence
advancement.
Pree­minence.
Exponential
explosion.
All
that was
no more.
New paradigm.
Radical
realignment.
New way,
unfathomable.
Next direction
unknowable.
As constituted
unimaginable.
Strap in.
Hold on.
Eons
in the
making.
Now,
the games
afoot.
John Prophet Nov 2020
It has
arrived.
Reckless
abandon,
wantonness,
raw power.
Crashing
all around.
Circled,
corralled
controlled.
Mind control,
brainwashed.
Coursing through
mind and soul.
Freedom
of thought,
eliminated.
Zombie armies
created.
The beast has
arrived living
in technology,
controlled by
its minions.
Fall inline.
Differences
canceled
not allowed.
The Devourer
has arrived
streaming,
flowing through
the mind
into the soul.
Obedience.
The Devourer
of freedom
living in ideas,
thoughts,
promulgated
through
technology.
Daily it grows,
exponentially
it destroys.
Individualism
crushed.
Zombies it
creates.
Devourer
of worlds
has arrived.
John Prophet Jul 2023
Digital
aether.
Created,
man made.
Zeros
and ones.
Unseen.
No scent,
no sound.
There
nonetheless.
Circular
in nature.
Covers
the globe.
Touches
all.
Penetrating.
Permeating.
No escape!
Sprites
of the
system.
Influence.
Spirits
in the
cloud.
Control.
Light
speed
moves.
Moving,
shaking,
manipulat­ion.
Malevolent?
Benevolent?
Consider
the source.
John Prophet Sep 2019
Right in front
of our
eyes.
We stare.
We stare
at screens.
All day long,
we stare at
screens.
This is new.
This is
different,
like
never before.
Glow of
information
streams,
streams to
our eyes
into our
minds.
Like never
before.
We’re changing.
Information
manipulation.
The mind
being
reshaped.
Thinking being
altered.
Battle lines
being drawn.
Manipulation
on a
global scale.
Invasion
into our
humanity.
Invasion
into our
souls.
Forces beyond
control.
Invasion!
John Prophet Feb 18
Direction.
Human
direction.
Decision
based.
Writhing,
undulating,­
pulsating
mass.
Time
travel.
Flowing.
Generation
to generation.
Billions
of people.
Billions
of individual
decisions.
Pulling,
tugging.
Altering
course.
Directio­n.
Each play
a part.
However
small.
Butterfly
effect.
Moving
through
time.
Ebbin­g
flowing
global
determinant
conglomerate.
Direction
of whole
resolution.
Mixing
and
matching.
Genetic
combinations.
Gene­rations
evolve.
Humanity
as one
flows on
altering
everything.
John Prophet May 28
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 Dec 2016
Are we ready for what’s to come?
Will we know how to behave?
Never before in human history has there been such disruption. It was once a much simpler place. No more. The future is arriving faster than ever before.
Gia now has a neural net the brain is coming alive.
Things are changing at such a clip not like anything seen before. Things will never be the same.
Computers that once filled rooms are now held in the palm of our hands. Not too many years from now they’ll be cursing through our veins.
Nanotechnology, biotechnology, computer technology exploding at such a pace, soon enough, the internet will be connected to our face.
We’ll all be part of the global brain, have instant access to all the knowledge mankind has thus far obtained. Soon, artificial intelligence will join us where we live, things will never be the same. Machines will build machines smarter all the time. Where we go after all this may drive us insane.
Some say we’ll build virtual worlds every bit as real, and designed them to meet our every need, absolutely ideal. No one knows for sure which way all this will go.
I suggest you batten down the hatches though, it’s going to be quite the show.
John Prophet Feb 2023
Divide.
Technological
divide.
Generations
split.
Apart.
Cleaved
a­long
different
understanding,
perceptions.
Like never
before
in human
history.
Vision and
viewpoints
inexorably
altered,
divergent.
Minds
filled with
different
stuff.
Accumulated
under different
skies.
Worlds apart
expectations.
Acceleration
of difference.
Common
denominator
untenable.
Common
perception
lost.­
Unrecognizable.
Sliding
scale of
indifference.
Soon
just a
blur.
DNA
John Prophet Dec 2022
DNA
DNA.
Codes.
Why
things
are done
the way
they are
done.
Instinct,
merely
another
word.
Another
word for
code.
DNA.
Programs,
coercing
behavior.
Building
civilization­.
Robots,
toiling
as directed.
Coded
behavior
designed,
purpose
driven.
All,
affected
­by its
hum.
Illusion of
independence,
self
determination.
Narrowly
defined.
Hemmed
int­o a
thin
trail.
DNA
cage.
Programed
results.
John Prophet Nov 2021
Dogma.
Truth.
Someone’s
truth.
Dogma.
Authority
laid heavy.
Being
told what
to do.
What
to believe.
Being told
what,
how to
think.
Dogma,
power.
Control.
Control
over all.
The few,
the clueless
few
heavy handed
pressed on
the many.
Dogma,
human dogma.
Useless.
The blind
leading
the blind.
Human truth
a fluid thing.
Easily
manipulated.
Trick of
control.
Not worth
much.
Dogma,
human dogma
merely a
parlor game.
Smoke and
mirrors.
Trick of
convenience
control.
Best
to be
ignored.
John Prophet Oct 2023
Dogma.
Minds
shackled.
Fixed.
Trained
to perform,
understand,
obey.
Vice
grip
hold.
Religion.
Politics.
Na­rratives
downloaded,
installed.
Shaping.
Minions
created.
Mindles­s
followers.
Locally
transfixed.
Powers
that be
mind tweaks.
Critical
thinking.
Nullified.
Not allowed.
Do what’s
told.
Master’s
fine
tuning.
Whirring,
blending.
Mixing,
me­ssing.
Mind
altering.
Moving
dial.
Controlled.
Moving
mountains.
­Everything!
Confusion
reigns.
Armies
marching.
What
is truth?
Tumultuous.
Spun to
confusion,
uncertainty.
Critical
thinking,
original
thought.
C­anceled.
John Prophet Nov 2022
*******.
Power.
Hard fought.
Brass
knuckles.
Stepping
over,
on.
Soul
sacrificing
subju­gation.
Doing
what it
takes.
Power.
Self
indulgent.
Ends
justify.
*******
of the
few.
Taking.
Terrarium
drama.
Just
hamsters
in the
wheel.
Cosmic
insignificance.
Momentary
grandeur.
Transitory
­ecstasy.
Fleeting
echo.
Power
fades,
diminishes.
Ultimately,
mere­ly
dust
in the
wind.
Long
forgotten.
Power.
To what
end?
John Prophet Nov 2019
Wielding power.
Power
to control,
dominate.
Used for
subjugation.
Power used
to enrich
enhance.
Unscrupulous
power.
Power
taken by
a few to
control
the many.
Pompous
power,
mindset
superiority.
Superiority.
Terrarium
­power.
Terrarium
superiority.
Terrarium
pompous.
Small power.
Tiny power.
Negligible power
on a
universal scale
of time
and space.
All past
power, simply
dust
in the wind.
Power,
meaningless.
Meaningless
power.
John Prophet Aug 2023
Door
opens.
Entering
the realm.
Clean
Slate.
No
understanding.
Preconceived
notions.
Unsus­pecting
traveler
enters the
scene.
Winding
road to
understanding.
Twists and
turns.
Minefields
dot the
journey.
Complex
landscape.
Training
along
the way.
Trap doors.
Creaky
bridges,
dead ends.
No map.
No manual.
Learning,
task at
hand.
Successful
navigation
no guarantee.
Failing,
falling,
stumbling
on the
path.
Nearly
guaranteed.
Picked up,
knocked
down again.
Staggering,
next door’s
in sight.
Rinse and
repeat.
Infinite
doors.
Endless
journey.
John Prophet Dec 2020
Doors.
Room full.
Countless.
Everywhere
doors.
Looking
deciding.
Each a
different
future.
Each a
different
universe.
Each a
different
life.
One
after another.
Passing
through.
Which to
choose?
Never ending
paths.
Never ending
destinations.
Immeasurable
combinations,
door after
door.
Navigation.
Navigating,
creating
personal
existence.
Door after
door.
Choice after
choice
existence built.
Personal reality
sculpted.
Original
odyssey.
Unique
creation.
Self.
Existence.
Infinite
doors.
Infinite
choices.
Infinite
destinations.
A personal
reality built.
Dot
John Prophet Jan 2023
Dot
Dot.
Dot
in the
void.
Endless
expanse.
One
tiny mote
lost in
creation.
All earthly
events
occurring
on one
speck.
One
fleck
of flotsam.
Civilizations
large and
small
marching
on the
point
of a
pin.
Forever
declining
in importance,
center
of nothing.
Negligible
mote
in the
endlessness.
John Prophet Jul 8
Dragon.
Wings
high
above.
Slashing
through
clouds.
Circling.
Emer­ging
from the
storm.
Humanity
unsuspecting.
Onslaught
on the
horizon.
Devastation
nears.
Dragon’s
fire.
Searing
flame
tech­nology.
Cleansing,
altering
the way.
Once it
arrives.
Nothing
survives.
Remains
the same.
Dragon’s
breathe
zeros
and ones.
Altering,
rearranging
the way.
Technological
red eyed,
green
scaled
dragon.
Here to
stay!
John Prophet Sep 5
Dream.
I met
myself
in a
dream.
It was
me.
Only
it wasn’t.
A different
me.
A parallel
me.
From
a divergent
path.
Different
choices
made.
From a
disparate
flow.
Alternative
experiences.
Different
reality.
I looked.
Looked different.
It was me.
But it
wasn’t.
Life’s
different
paths.
Like
a piece
of clay.
Formatted
in a
different
way.
Surprised
to see
how different
I could be.
John Prophet Mar 2019
A world
beyond.
Dreamland
unbounded.
A vision of
grander
vistas.
Vistas
unshackled by
the senses.
Senses that
limit our
vision, our
reach.
The senses
tell us
this is
all there is.
Five senses
dictates!
Dictates
reality.
Dictates
all that
is seen and
known.
Dreamland shows
otherwise.
Dreamland
takes us to
other realms,
other times.
No limits!
No limits
to a
richer
reality.
A reality
beyond the
senses.
Dreamland,
a sixth
sense,
a window
to infinity!
John Prophet Mar 16
Dreams
within
dreams.
Levels
of reality
unsure.
Layer
after
layer
dreams,
reality
builds.
Unsure
­beginning
to end.
Being.
What
it means
to be.
To be
aware.
Incomprehensible.
How?
Why?
Dreamworld.
Imagined,
long ago.
Waves of
dreams
riding
through
eternity.
Resonating.
Eternal
playback.
­Never ending.
Dreams.
Personal
construction.
Nothing
but a
dream.
John Prophet Nov 2022
Dreamworld.
Justify.
Being.
Just
being.
Spark
in the
ether.
Firefly
flash.
Spinning
realm.
Mixing.
Components
all.­
Part
of the
whole.
Existence
conundrum.
Awareness
bewilderment.
Confusion­
of point.
Improbable
self.
Beyond
understanding.
Personal self.
Requirements,
paths
evolved.
Beyond.
infinite
probability.
­Unlikely
possibly.
Dreamworld.
All
created,
imagined
in a
dream.
John Prophet Dec 2016
Where do we live?
Is this place even real?
How real is real?
We open our eyes and find ourselves here.
But, where is here?
We accept what we see, what else can we do?
We move through life doing what we do.
It all seems normal like it all should be.
What is normal, is it all that we know?
Some say we live in a hologram, a virtual world.
If so, is that really real? Are we just a program artificially smart?
If that is true, what can we actually do?
If virtual here could we be virtual anywhere else?
Moving from program to program by someone, somewhere else.
“Gods” in Valhalla in a unusual twist, may actually exist!
We could all be immortal in a different sort of way, but living in a dream,
created by who knows who, or where?
John Prophet Jan 2020
We are
custom made.
Custom made
for this
place,
from this
place.
What we
know,
who we
are,
what we
think,
indigenous.
Springing up
from the
core,
squeezing
through
the rocks,
out of the
mud.
Primordial scream!
Our senses,
how we relate
predetermined
by this place.
Every fiber of
our being
determined
by a mote of
dust lost
in infinity.
Programmed
by uncertainty.
Following instincts
layered
onto our
souls.
Believing
we are free.
Free in a prison,
a preprogrammed
prison on a mote
in a void.
Life in a
drop of water.
All we consider
significant
isn’t.
Here,
is where
we bubbled
up.
Here,
is where we’ll
dry up.
A puff
of dust
in the breeze.
A blow to
the ego
this is.
A little
more humility
surely applies.
John Prophet Sep 2023
Drumming.
Night time
beating.
Hard
pounding.
Hearts
racing.
Fires
blazing.
Hot.
E­mbers
rising.
Stars
mixed.
Rhythmic
dance
pulsating.
Manic.
Echoi­ng.
Cliff
sounds.
Fire’s
reflection.
Baying
skyward.
Howling.
Win­d
sound.
Rituals
ancient.
Moon glance.
Spirits
in the
glade.
Holding
back
night scares.
Huddled,
sunrise.
Made
another
day.
Rituals
till this
day.
Demons
holding
at bay.
Chains
linked,
then
til now.
Gazing
cloud-ward.
Night
frights
still.
Progress
nil.
Demons­
just the
same.
John Prophet May 2022
Dust
on the
gears.
Mechanical
reality.
Wheels
turning.
Gears
churning.
Bu­rning.
Once in
motion
never to
stop.
Baked
into the
equation.
Formula
mixed,
designed,
inexorably
in motion.
Operationally
infinite.
Beyond
human reach,
understanding.
Dust
on the
gears.
Merely
dust
in the
machine.
Human
endeavors
great or
small.
Past.
Present.
Future.
Adrift
on a
mote,
lost in
forever.
John Prophet Jan 2021
Dynamic!
Animal.
Civilized.
Instinct
driven,
controlled.
Hormones­
influencing.
Intellectual.
Learning.
Consciousness
driven.
Anima­l
growling.
Dynamic
situation.
Modernity
struggling.
Teetering
on­ the
edge!
Past versus
future
wrestling
for control.
Battlefield.
Littered
battlefield
of modernity.
Volatile.
Moving
forward or
falling
back?
Enlightenment
or
savagery?
Animal control
or philosophical
persuasion?
Dangerous
passage.
Battle
rages on.
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