An Original Poem

Truths and Changes

When the world was flat

So small and so vast

When you could fall off its edge

and plummet into the unknown.

When we thought we knew what truth was,

We knew our place in the world

We discovered truths and exploited them.

We were savages, mankind.

But something always changes

Now we know the Earth is round

So large and within reach

At its end, a universe

Waiting to be explored.

The only truth that matters is our own,

and our place in the world.

We preserve truths by using them.

Have we reformed, mankind?

For something occasionally changes

What of when the world is gone

How big will it be? How accessible?

When there is no end,

Only thoughts of what once was.

What truths will matter then,

When we have carved our place in the world.

We regret our actions for their consequences.

It is too late mankind!

Because nothing ever really changes,

Even though everything eventually does.

                           Arige Shrouf, 2013