Written In the Stars
If you look
at the written books
you'll see
the future clear as can be.
Dreamers, writers, visionaries of the past
could reveal the present before it was cast.
Between the pages and the lines
was the direction of all mankind.
Nature falls back in fearful retreat
as man foolishly experiments indiscrete.
Where have we been, where are we going
what lies ahead without our knowing?
It's in the books, all openly revealed
of God's power which we long to steal.
Written in and on the stars
where are we going, what are we doing, how far?
The question is ever the same
not can we but should we refrain?
We are not gods, never meant to be
only children still tempted by the knowledge tree.
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