Such vivid important things
Laid out over the tapestry of screens and tapes
Every moment in human history
Laid out in great detail
And we make this our history
And it is no longer a mystery
If there is a book
Or a song
That explains
Why things are
The way they are
And you go further back
Further, further back in time
You dig up the fossils
And you start finding the oil mines
And we scavenge for the answers
Puzzles left to solve for us
By the river of time
Do you realise
For a moment
That from this century onwards
Whatever we do
Will be so well documented
The events won't be a mystery
It will all be out there to find
What a pity
To not realise we come from obscurity
That there is a valley of time
Far deeper than we can fathom
That we travelled from
For millenia
Carrying all that we ever really needed
In the fabric of our very selves
Passing on knowledge
One generation at a time
Until this one century
When everything suddenly became
Memorable.