Haughty Hankerings - the Hubris and Hollowness of Hieroglyphs and Holograms

As Pharoah thought Deep thoughts on Thoth, He became serious And thought of Osiris. What of Seth? What do Anubis and Horus sayeth? Of Amun and Mut, And panoplied Nut? It may take me forever Mused the Pharoah - To invent the Alphabet To honour me and the rest. So he hit upon a plan From the carved likeness of man In relief on a cliff. Hey, hello - was born the Hieroglyph! So excited was the Pharaoh That row upon row Of ideograms were made For then and beyond- never to fade. Way back in Antiquity Was the hieroglyph's nativity, From civilization's start Great works of art. After five millennia or more At a light and sound show The Hieroglyphs stand out In splendor and shout: Look on and wonder On our days of thunder; When great kings ruled the land Where you wonder and stand. Great things we'd tell you If only you knew To read papyrus and stone Like your own Champollion! Be that as it may Setting aside our dismay We venture to now and here And our version of the ancient fear - Athazagoraphobic Is a form of being sick Where you fear you'll be forgotten As your memory gets rotten. To overcome this fear Modern science was here. Came our Dennis Gabor With the fruit of his labor. - Hologram- Now you can see light effects Both form and the texts With science of the day Having had it's great say. But think all over again- Isn't it plain Holograms in chips Are but chipped hieroglyphs? That some day in future A post-apocalyptic preacher Would try to decipher The hologrammatic cipher? A Rosetta Stone of old A better story told Than this obsolescent chip Of a "modern" Athazagoraphobic. Let me wind up this ditty Of trying to be witty Holograms and Hieroglyphs Are both alliterative scripts! ~11 April 2016~ Contest Judged : 29 May 2016