Wednesday, September 30, 2009

“Destroyer”

A grey skinned hand emerges from the cracking ground.
It violently pushes the deadened earth aside.
The figure pulls itself halfway out of the ground,
Revealing eyes like a television with a lost signal.
Its mouth opens and expels dust, no breathe, no sounds.
Now crawling out with its hands, it scratches at the earth for leverage.
Finally, its body is fully exposed, possessing no gender.
It holds out its hands and closes its eyes.
The fingertips slowly start to smoke and flames suddenly appear around them.
It opens its mouth once more, but this time thick oil seeps from its mouth.
Clouds swarm the sky and it suddenly becomes dark.
The horizon gets blurry as it would in the heat of summer.
The figure opens its eyes and closes its mouth.
It starts to rain, but the droplets don’t reach the ground before they evaporate.
The being hunches over and calls out in a strange, distorted voice.
Its shoulder blades start to swell as if something was trying to escape its body.
The skin tears open and a single great black feathered wing emerges from each side.
Oil pours from the fresh wounds, leaking down the creature’s back.
The figure recovers from its pain and opens its arms to the sky.
Its wings spread out like a raven and the figure calls out again, louder this time.
The earth rumbles this time and a fierce clamoring can be heard within the clouds.
The being flies up into the sky with its enormous wings, returning its hands to its side.
The earth stops revolving, it just stands completely still in outer space.
The earth is drained to a dull grayish color and the oceans to a brownish gold, resembling oil.
The creature flies around, setting fire to the dry, withering star.
The burning planet, formerly known as earth cracks and crumbles apart.
Consumed wholly by the hollowing darkness.

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