Friday, February 15, 2008

The Library of the Stone Cat

There it stands
It looks upon each user
They register their name
And enter in a new world
One with reason, and holism
Fiction and poems
History and science
Where there are answers
To every question
Where knights fight dragons
And go questing
Knowledge comes in many forms
And all the while there sits a stone cat
It reminds us that we exist in a world
Only alive by the random chats
With wisdom divine, whims capricious
Magnificent paws, tails and meows
Of the daughters and sons
Of the Egyptian goddess Bast
Who slew the mice
And by that saved the grains
Of the Pharaohs
Saving knowledge
Born from ancient experience
We are in their debt