They claimed that books were obsolete, a strain
to keep, a home for spiders, dust and mold
we trusted traces, texts in clouds, not drain

of ink on paper from the days of old,
we were modern, but we failed to see
how knowledge was transformed, and cold

unknowing we became, enslaved, not free
because what was on paper had been changed
to fit the tyrants lust to rule, to be

our core and being that we can’t exchange,
but somewhere hidden there were words
on paper left, that wasn’t burned, so strange

it was, that deep below in caves where lords
were absent and we taught the basic skills
from ancient texts and formed a brand new world.

We learned to listen and to read and still
it took us time to trust ourselves to gain
with care, to sleep and love not seeking thrills.

Today we have Open Link Night at dVerse hosted byGrace, I will be late to the show but will come by later. There is no librarian in this book, but I am sure he was the one who saived the world. Some of you might have read the foundation by Isaac Asimov, and know how the foundation was created to save important knowledge from an emprire that was falling apart. It can never stop the falling apart, but it is possible to recover quicker if knowledge is kept.

It was a while sinc I wrote terza rima, the ancient form of Dante, I decided to end it after just 6 stanzas, but I think it could have gone on once I had the meter and let it flow with the rhymes.

May 21, 2026