Monday, 18 May 2026

The hungry god

 

The globulous form oozes

across cosmic storms

and nebula chasms.

It aches to find its place,

amongst the stars

and the planets.

It sees so much beauty,

and feels so lonely

 in this infinite space.

 

"The old gods they called us", he laments,

"If only they could see the misery, inherent

in the long crawl across ages,

but they speak with fear engrained

in the way their words seep

through the grains of time"

 

Like ink across a black night of empty pages,

a splash of surprise on his gelatinous eyes.

He spies a planet, blue and green,

a place bountiful and free,

a place of so many colours and

he

wants to visit,

to consume.

 

For his hunger groans

like galactic thunder 

across the vast aeons.

His rumbling hunger

rages on forever.

 

The mass slithers

through the stratosphere.

Bleakness in the atmosphere.

The brink of apocalypse,

the booming

of a total eclipse.

Faces look up in awe,

lips quiver in fear,

screaming as the tears 

flood the seas,

and their sky

disappears

 

The mass expands,

opening glands.

It must be a mouth

some people shout,

whilst others are jelly on a plate,

sloppy and unsettled,

spoon-feeding

their fear to the air.

 

The maw opens

and the ink splits

the night.

A grand arching symphony.

It speaks, "don’t be scared,

I’m here to bring the light.

I may look scary,

but my form is not my heart,

and what I hold inside is pure,

love" and in a bite

he absorbs

the hate, leaving

only hope without fear.

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