Pawns

Knowledge is power and knowledge is pain,

Truths can shine and truths can scar,

Arts mastered; new secrets learned,

Lies uncovered, pedestals shattered into pieces of glass,

Dark corners shown and destroyers unmasked.

Knowledge is questions and knowledge is answers,

With every answer there's a new question,

Stars and systems uncovered; planets revealed,

Where, what, how, why, when,

The story of life never stops and the canvas grows.

Knowledge is endless and knowledge is short,

Sometimes it lasts forever,

Sometimes disappears with a breath,

Forgotten worlds and history preserved,

The truth is hidden in the cracks,

Languages fade and new ones are made,

Beliefs and religions form and others are lost to the cruel hand of time,

Taking knowledge as it's given.

Power and pain:

Strength and darkness.

Questions and answers:

Obstacles and rewards.

Endless and short:

Life and death.

Knowledge builds a mind,

Destroys one other,

Saves a life for more,

Ends one other is tragedy,

Finds a sickness,

Asks for a cure,

Builds a city out of ash,

Takes it down into the earth.

Knowledge is the ultimate God,

Ruling our lives like pawns,

Moving the pieces,

Choosing and creating the paths,

Killing players,

Giving birth to monsters and saints,

Giving and taking,

Creating...