Earth and Water

Part I – The Earth

 

Distant thunder

A tremor in the bones and breath of the earth

Dread like a half-dreamed nightmare

 

Dark warhorses of the sky

Galloping, thundering along their predetermined path

 

Technology, that frail warrior

Strides forth to protect his works

But horses ride over him

Cavalry trample him

Wolves follow in their wake

All vanish into the distance like a premonition

 

The thunder returns

Lightening flickers and leaps in the hills

Frogs croak (happily)

But flames lick buildings

Fair structures and squat

All are devoured

Rain cannot wash it away

The flames leap higher

The ground shakes

Roaring fills the earth

 

Part 2 – The Sea

 

The horses of fire and thunder ride on

Hounds at their heels

River in their path does not stop them

River swelled to an ocean

Of noise, rising and falling

And the world is made of water

Spraying, crashing on

Dry pebbles the horses ride on

 

Noise as the heavens collapse

Chaos and confusion spread

Noise gathers

The sun has gone out

Clouds hang heavily

And the earth is falling, falling, falling…

 

Part 3 – Song

 

Distant shriek

Grief untempered by peace

Mothers wailing for children

Children for their parents

Daughters for their lovers

 

Song of the butterfly

Unexpected, almost inaudible, moments of beauty

Then the grimy window comes between it again

Swan sings also

And the stars far away

 

Part 4 – The Stars and the Sea

 

Stars sing in space

Distant fading

Space, dark, interminable

Black holes open

Yeni unotime

Sun turns to red giant

Noise, electronic noise of the universe

Overwhelming

(but the stars leak through)

Eala, sea-star, engla beorhtast

Hæled under heofenum no more

Water is coming

Washing, crashing, enveloping

An ocean swelled to a universe

The stars fall in

It is an ocean of light