Ramblings of a Mad Goddess

By: Missy Deskins

I was here when this Universe began.
I was there when the previous Universe collapsed.
I saw this world being reborn again from the ashes of the past.
I was there to witness the beginnings of sin.

I walked this world before you humans ever came into being.
You were nothing more than the passing thoughts of a God s whims.
I walked this Earth with the dinosaurs in their days of glory.
I witnessed the ending of their magnificent story.
The giant rock fell from the sky.
They all passed away.
Millions of years have since passed.
And it still seems like yesterday.

I would sometimes watch the sabertooth cats hunt..
Wild and beautiful as with all felines.
So long it s been since their songs were sung.
So long it s been since they left the world behind.

I was there when Atlantis was lost forever to the sea.
I was there when Troy burned.
I was there when the Old Gods were free.
Before any lessons needed to be learned.

I was there when Lyonesse gloried beyond the coast of Cornwall.
I was there when the Greatest of Kings broke the most sacred of laws.
The Once and Future King they call him to this day.
He was only a King once, I m sorry to say.
Despite what the bards and poets like to insist.
His Kingdom called Camelot is lost in the mists.
It shall never shine again.
The Great King and his Knights are only dust in the wind.

I walked the Earth with the Buddha, Mohammed, and the Christ.
Three of your prophets who promised you they would return someday.
If they ever do then I think it may be nice.
Perhaps they can save even me in some way.

And here I am now; twenty first century.
I am as alive as I ve ever been, but I m not free.
I m lost in the world of humans.
These highly evolved sentient beings.
Your kind has exceeded any expectations I ve ever had of you.
I m afraid I underestimated your kind like a fool.

But your time will end someday.
Nothing lasts forever in a world like this, no matter what your priests say.
Just like all the creatures who have roamed this Earth before you.
Someday your end shall come too. I will still live on.
I will still go on.
I will be here when the sun dies.
And the Galaxy is lost with the stars cries.
I shall be here as a new world is born again.
From the ashes of the past. Your past.
All things are born and die.
All things are born again and die again.

Except for me.

And so shall it always be as thus,
The never ending cycle is a must.

Only I will never die.
Only I will never end.
Only I will be here as all things begin again.