Enjoy this reading of Star of the Time and Turning By Quivalin Soth from More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. You can pick up a physical or digital copy from DriveThruRPG Here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204205/More-Leaves-from-the-Inn-of-the-Last-Home-2e?affiliate_id=50797
Star of the Time and Turning
By Quivalin Soth
The light of that star
is centuries old,
passing through voids
and vacuums to reach us,
and yet to the eye
it is here and now,
as a story’s past tense
translates into imminent dreaming.
As the night sky descends,
its influence rising,
those of us waiting
in darkened country
are floating where memory
doubles as dream
and dream blends with waking
until all the tenses
past present and future
collide in mysterious sentences:
One generation
gives way to another—
so say philosophers
calendars seasons
sedimentary rock
and the waning eye:
but against them stands poetry
vision and heart
the wild incandescence
each of us feels
as the present converged
and renames the past
and promises everything
even when nothing
seems our destination,
even when stories
reach an inevitable end.
One generation
gives way to another—
a bleak genealogy
fashioned of soil and bone,
and all of our worlds,
both perceived and invented,
trail into chronicle
diminish to legend
in new generations
when you take wife or husband
when the children you scarcely imagine
come to you, bearing
this book or another.
And then, in the fading
recesses of starlight,
in the earliest pages
of this and all stories,
you will open the book
with those mythical children,
and in showing them country
you traveled one lost
inexpressible spring,
you will find an old sky
of stars half-remembered,
new lights will appear
and old lights transfigured.
And providing that all of us
Did the task well—
Since the first star’s inception
Since the pen and the compass
Since the first of your memories
Anchored the past to present—
All of us then
Will repeople the heavens,
What is past what is present
Will align in a prospect
Of new constellations
And that star, both the same
And forever transformers
Has been shining is shining
And will have been shining
Eternally here and now.
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