Hello Reader

(Picture of me at work taken by a colleague)

This poem was written in the 1990s so is relatively "modern". Really it should have introduced this blog I suppose but hey.... Here it is:

My dearest reader, seconds ago, before your

Decision to turn the page, there was nothing.

These very words were hidden away and thus

Unseen, to all intents did not exist:

Just like the beauty of the Jovian Moons

`Til “Voyager” beamed those pictures back to Earth.

For You have brought this page to life - yes You and only You!

You bring along a wealth of memories of your own,

Your feelings, thoughts, regrets and sorrows, joys

And fears, your hopes and fantasies.

You have the mountains of your mind:

Your personal rivers, clouds and suns: flowers and gasometers!

Landscapes, dreams and nightmares of your very own.

And me, as you sit reading this, I might be with you right now,

Dead and buried, or maybe miles away.

To you I give the role of God: to breathe your life upon this page.

Take you away, dear reader, and there’s nothing: formless void.

Yet now, together, you may join me, in a realm

Where Life, though challenged by Evil,

Is warded by our Love.

PAUL BUTTERS

© COPYRIGHT PAUL BUTTERS 1997. Accepted for publication 1997 in “The Star-Laden Sky” by THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POETRY.

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