Alphabets Voyage
Alphabets Voyage
Just last week the alphabets walked off into the sky
Taking Saudi Arabia and China’s colloquial scripts along
With pages, other fibrous substances in disguise, into the ages
Hiding white as ghosts on vast tracts of time
Behind trees that once made them into paper
To tie the world together in education
Alphabets climb through the stars to changes
Into the very core of white
Moving past Madagascar up and out past all the planets
Dropping a simple note behind, no one there to read it
It read, “Be back soon” but even those small words would leave
Later, packing letters, each one placed inside a bag to go
Like spies, down to the very pulp of life, fictional or not
All journeyed, sojourned onward, lined like soldiers in a box
Only white stayed pure as virgin armies on clean linens lines
Laid down on a slice of air there between the pages
Blank papers, blank books, blank looks, remained
Everything seemed fine up to the point
When pencil tips broke from wood and lead
Pens went dry, evaporated, fell down a well
The Press halted in mid air
Everything seemed right
Paper stayed white and mute as usual
Reading between the lines came easy as words took off
Thoughts lined up for moving to a brand new future
Executing freedoms one by one upon the hand of nature
Never to tell a story twice until it’s written on the stars
The soul was taken out of alphabets so they took off
Their voyage started here, a tiny world
Given proper paper context
They could be anywhere by now
Walking on the sky or over atmospheres
Alphabets leave paper trails of white
For other worlds and cultures to absorb
Or something else we haven’t thought of
But that’s alright
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