(The Flowery Roots of Heaven!)
You were young and happy way back then!
Powered with Life when all the Earth was new!
In Joy you ran to greet the rain-washed Morn!
Danced delighted where
The Mountain Wildflowers grew!
You gave your Tribe such joy!
You laughed at winds and lept at Butterflies.
They must have felt within themselves
A thousand little deaths,
For the one and only one that you did die!
But SHE would not accept that you were dead!
Held to her ******* your futile cold and fading form!
The others thought her mad! They had no ken!
This was but the calm before the storm!
Soon you stank! The others grumped.
So she went before the dawn!
And gathered in her desperate arms
The Flowers that made you dance!
And flung hoards and piles upon your rotting form!
Flash forward now! Millions of labs!
The Networked World,
And up above our heads
Waltzing like silent clocks, our satellites
And all of Science seeks just as she sought,
That all the ones we love do not stay dead!
Flash Forward more: New Jerusalem!
A rainbow colored cube covered in gems!
Shining powerfully with Light and Love and joy!
Animals and Plants...The Carpenter!
Fourteen hundred miles of Forever-Life within!
They laughed bitterly at her
That withering weeds could bring back what reality forbid!
That fading flowers could resurrect a dying dance
Well it took awhile….
…...They DiD!
Jan 8
Jan 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM UTC
(The Flowery Roots of Heaven!)
You were young and happy way back then!
Powered with Life when all the Earth was new!
In Joy you ran to greet the rain-washed Morn!
Danced delighted where
The Mountain Wildflowers grew!
You gave your Tribe such joy!
You laughed at winds and lept at Butterflies.
They must have felt within themselves
A thousand little deaths,
For the one and only one that you did die!
But SHE would not accept that you were dead!
Held to her ******* your futile cold and fading form!
The others thought her mad! They had no ken!
This was but the calm before the storm!
Soon you stank! The others grumped.
So she went before the dawn!
And gathered in her desperate arms
The Flowers that made you dance!
And flung hoards and piles upon your rotting form!
Flash forward now! Millions of labs!
The Networked World,
And up above our heads
Waltzing like silent clocks, our satellites
And all of Science seeks just as she sought,
That all the ones we love do not stay dead!
Flash Forward more: New Jerusalem!
A rainbow colored cube covered in gems!
Shining powerfully with Light and Love and joy!
Animals and Plants...The Carpenter!
Fourteen hundred miles of Forever-Life within!
They laughed bitterly at her
That withering weeds could bring back what reality forbid!
That fading flowers could resurrect a dying dance
Well it took awhile….
…...They DiD!
See this in color with pictures at
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