So, why "Light, Power, Force"? Well, those were the words that Atrus carved into his battery in theBook of Atrus.Those words just caught my interest and, after a little bit of thinking, I noticed how they fit for the entire series (up to that point- seeing as it was written pre-Revelation.) Because of that, this poem was born. May you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.

Miveen

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Light, Power, Force

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Light

It began as

A dream

A tiny shimmer of hope

Deep in a cave

Hidden away

From the world

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Power

One little word

Etched out

Onto a blank page

In blackest ink

Opening up

Horizons

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Force

It overtook

Killed all

Fashioned in vengeance

Against a man

A human wife

A whole race

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Light

The blank desert

With stars

Welcomed them back home

Gave them back life

Deep in a gash

In the earth

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Power

Memories lived

And pride

Survived in the shape

Of an angry

Boy, running back

Away...down

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Force

It returned to

D'ni

Pride, anger and power

Knowledge comes through

Only insane hate

Writing more

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Light

One death is for

One life

He is born who might

Fill prophecies

But is given

Angry words

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Power

He sees "The Whole"

And learns

Also of a world

Told to be dead

But it calls him

Will he go?

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Force

Instead it comes

For him

Through the figure of

A white haired ghost

His father shows

Him D'ni

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Light

A dying Age

Breaking

She called it Riven

One step farther

Away from all...

Toward all

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Power

Love slowly grows

A gift

A strength before unknown

For old and young

It aids, it writes

New Ages

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Force

Terrible wrath

And hate

Against the son

But such anger

Cannot help in

Rebuilding

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Light

The Myst book is

Given

A safe haven

To give them peace

A rest for a

Short while

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Power

They held an Age

A world

All of those therein

Under control

One- pure power

Other-pure greed

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Force

Revenge for deaths

Comes swift

Through red and blue books

Trapped is evil

Payment for their

Immense crimes

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Light

It falls to earth

Through stars

It is the Myst book

One Stranger is

Called to find it

Destiny

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Power

What could have been

Is gone

Abandonment on

An Age of his

Own creation

Power lost

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Force

They break open

A door

Noise breaks the stillness

Light breaks the dark

To build again

Ruined walls

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Light

Call survivors

Return

D'ni breathes again

Aid in the growth

Illuminate

They move back

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Power

Another Age

Not dead

But hiding secrets

The once unseen

Begin to die

And are seen

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Force

Fighting cannot

Win out

Just as rebuilding

Cannot be done

In the ruins

Releeshahn

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Light

A second chance

For him

Her name means laughter

One bright smile

And there is hope

Once again

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Power

Her darkness has

Vanished

Humility crushed

Power is hers

And she will take

All she wants

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Force

Death overtakes

Great pain

A terrible blow

Yet once again

The humble ones

Still survive

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Light

It calls again

New ones

Come from the desert

Go down to the

City, Uru

Lives again

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Power

The DRC

Is not

Part of the great plan

With clouded views

They must leave the

Cavern

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Force

The new Journey

The Path

All leading to her

Foreseen Grower

The Desert Bird

Prophecies...

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Light

It began as

A dream

Idea in the dark

Then it grew large

Changed many, spread,

Molded lives

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Power

A D'ni word

In black

On a pure white page

Links far away,

Linking end to

Beginning

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Force

It continues

Moving

Urging the city

To always grow

And others

To learn more

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Light, Power, Force