Fable

  

 
            A deadly error once took place
            long ago, when from yearnings
            to witness the Power within,
            we dreamt for ourselves an exterior diety
                 premature in boundlessness
                      and impossible in scope
			
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            But we could not live with this god's expectations
            and we could not reclaim what we'd given away
            So in shame, we surrendered our own sacred fortune,
                 thus divining the undoing
                      of both believers and Believed
			

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            And now,
            somewhere off in a man-made paradise,
            not really knowing, but vaguely disturbed,
            an ill-fated Lord-on-High regrets
                 and frets He made the same mistake
                      the day He formed the human world
                           from a dream He thought He had of Himself

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