In initio
I've been here since the beginning
in some form or another.
I've showered the earth with molten lava
and quenched it with wind and sea.
I grazed with dinosaurs
and was eaten by their kind;
Yet I outlived their demise.
I emerged from the sea as Man
executed the first murder
the young earth had ever seen.
His universal love and hate
defined by incongruous beliefs.
I am Truth, which is the distinction:
endless beyond His own extinction.
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Submitted on May 05, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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