I Am…Eternity

I am Earth, Sun, Moon

I am the genetic blueprint

Of the stars that shine

In the rivers of Milky Ways

That spread their gossamer wings

Across Universes of Time

I am Rain, the Forests

That drip golden honey, deep green

I am the cloud that wafts

Mists of Life, from pasts

Into the present moment, now

Into futures unknown

I am the blue fire in the lightning

The thunderous roar in the thunderstorm

I am the Dance of Destiny

I am Eternity…

I am the beast

That has no soul

In my black yawn

The Universe I swallow

Clamped in my blood-red fangs

With one gigantic gulp

I extinguish the throb of Life

With a mighty crunch

I snuff out the pulse of light

That shines through

Millenniums of Time

With a slash of my giant claws

I rip, I tear, I slash, I shred

With a gnash of my monster jaws

I crush, I mangle, I mash, I smash

I destroy, obliterate, annihilate

Existence into Non-Existence –

With my monstrous breath

I breathe out eternal black fires

Through my empty eye-sockets

I emit fires of black ashes

From my gaping mouth

I spew forth eternal emptiness

In my twisted entrails

Churn slime and rot

With my giant feet

I dance the Dance of Death

I am the End…

I am Life Immortal

In the slime, in the rot

In the petrified putrefying decay

Are buried seeds of my Birth

Which springs forth

In tender shoots of green

Which flower and breed, Time anew

From my eye-sockets

Bursts forth again, radiant light

In my giant black yawn

A new Universe is born

New Earths, new Suns

New Moons and new sparkling Stars

Swirl and whirl to a new tune

And mists of time I collect anew

In my giant cupped hands

Which churn and coagulate

Into memories renewed

And the rain in the new forests

And the new lightning with the sheen

Of tempered new steel

That rents the new skies

With tongues of new blue fires

And the rumbling thunder

That roars with new voice

Coalesce and combine

To orchestrate new melodies

That swell and fill my soul

In a new crescendo

And my giant feet move

To the new rhythm and beat

In a new Dance of Destiny –

I am… Eternity…

-by Rita Putatunda