Aítion

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A LIFE. They were not - so vast as we - yet they lived an existence far less debatable = than that of quavering atoms Consider this - our cognatum - Theia /You have heard this name before. The memory dissipates on solar wind./ DAY BY DAY, THEY CAROMED GAILY THROUGH THE COSMOLOGIC STREAM. unbound by stellar gravity = caged by pitiable minds EACH THOUGHT THE HERCULEAN EFFORT OF A MILLENNIUM. SEE NOW THE VAST SPAN OF ITS LIFE. So Theia lived - until misfortune - led it here - caught - by my gravities mutual attraction = utter annihilation Those microscopic specks - ants crawling - in eaten-rotten eye sockets helpless = stupid = blind BUT FOR THEIA, A SCREAM LASTING A THOUSAND YEARS. A STRUGGLE AGAINST A THOUSAND CLINGING TENDRILS. until at last = a fated meeting = with dearest III agony shearing crashing tearing, part of my self my thoughts my life, torn away, floating brain-dead in my sky Theia's foolish parasite-components - unaware - to the last THAT GREAT STONE-HEWN FORM—THAT EON-ENDURING MIND—GONE, IN ONE RED-MEAT PUMP OF STICKY NOXIOUS FLUID. each life snuffed = a thought scattered = awareness chipped away A mere moment - in your limited perception - but for one of us - a dying cry - stretching – forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever the curse of our existence: past is present is future, pain never to fade into memory. can you imagine? no need to imagine = when it can feel /You stretch like taffy. Look, see, Nasya, you know the dough is ready when you can read a label through it. You watch the galaxy pinwheel through the windowpane of your mind. You watch your doom approach for four hundred years in the span of a moment. You claw at neon bars./ nascent awareness oscillating oozing = it won't calm down I told you - this story - was a bad idea .now just what have you bu|nch done to it this time