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Paper Universe
In your notebook there's a world made of lines
A two dimensional land that encompasses everything
One dimension is sandwiched between so many others
Some lands spill onto other pages
Too big for their one dimension
The lands are created by a unknowing God
A young person with so much power
Writing down what they have to or want to
Giving birth to an extensive universe
One corner holding history and facts
Another a realm of eternal war and death
The gods favorite being a kingdom
A colorful land with Knights and dragons
Lighting the pages on fire that doesn't burn
One land is budding America
Trapped eternally in the late 1700s
Full of the creation of a nation and government
A failed first attempt then a constitution
Political tensions between the beginnings of political parties
Founding fathers unaware they're trapped
Bursting through history to reach now
Important decisions recalled in pencil
Permanent in history, temporary in a notebook
The second is a wasteland
A chronicle of a corrupted government
Plagued by war and broken homes
Created by words from the Gods brain
Words thought by them as just a story
But they tear the land apart
Characters full of anguish and trapped in war
Unable to fix the dystopia on their own
With a God unwilling to finish their story
The last is the Gods favorite
Delicate strokes create beautiful dragons
Knights in full armor ride horses to battle
Captured in the moments before the strike
The colorful kingdom with depth no other land has
The land that the God favors and spends the most time in
Adding definition to the stress in the Knights face
The nameless hero unaware his fight will never end
Graceful and fiery for all eternity
These dimensions are extensive for the inhabitants
But pages to the God
Just a sheet in a college ruled notebook
Realms that could be wrecked with an eraser
Or torn out of their paper collective
But it's a beautiful universe

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I was inspired by the simplicity of the notebook and how amazing it can be at the same time. I hope this leads to a newfound respect for the notebook.