Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-28439145-20170712005333/@comment-26510374-20170712041226

excerpt of a larger epic i wrote (from memory)

Dawn is a whale

it breaches

from the depths of consciousness

then sinks

down to the deep

before you can get a good picture.

It sits

waits

for you to get up

its milky eyes reminiscent

of the stillborn child it was born from, moondown

they are filled with stars

the dying stars

who flee as dawn, life slipping, takes the hand

of its successor, the three-faced twilight

and pulls it to the rock it sits on in the sea of consciousness

which stirs steadily

the weight causes dawn to slip as dawn's life drains

dawn falls off the rock, turning to twilight as time slows,

and dawn laughs their gentle, sad laugh as the milky eyes dull

the stars fading

dawn falling, disappearing

into consciousness

without

a single

sound