Saturday, December 31, 2011

Sea, Earth, Sky.

It came from the sea
From the cold lightless depths
Eyes in the chasm
A mouth full of teeth
Thrashing and churning
As the sea itself might
Oozing slime from a jaw
That would shut out the light
And an underside scaled
Thorny and black
Fish making homes
Of the bones hanging off
Thrusts itself out
And onto the quai
To make waste of the land
O, it came from the sea

It came from the earth
The clay and the mud
From the fiery pit
It shudders and roars
Crushing over the trees
A mountain that moves
A thousand bulging legs
All claws and all hooves
The eyes have gone black
Fetid and gazing
But the fiery maw
Sends out great plumes of smoke
Rising above the great forest
It moves mountains of dirt
An unstoppable force
O, it came from the earth

It came from the sky
Like some terrible angel
Screeching like needles
It swoops from above
Stalking the land
The great beast of prey
Shining and burning
In the light of the day
Clutching and scraping
With claws of white bone
Devouring whole
And ascending again
Those terrible wings
On an ill wind it flies
It will blot out the sun
O, it came from the sky

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