That night of total darkness

Overnight the holy truths broke
out of the prison of sacred texts,
the farther they fled from prison,
the tinier they became,till all that
remained of them was an army of
a million mice hurrying for a mass
suicide in the high seas.
Splash!!
And the world ,still sleeping sunk
in the waters of ignorance.
Books and archives,now emptied
of weighty knowledge spilled over
from the shelves,triggering a giant
tsunami of lost words and phrases
in which you feared for the life
of friends and family.
Life or Death,you thought.
but as you saw the city rebuild from the same
ruins,you could tell it was all a matter
of choosing Right or Left like always
You never need to live
upside down in an inverted
world,as ants scaling falling
towers will tell you.