Holding the Picture - Cloud Rat

…Neptune's mouth;

The tentacle shows through the fabric now

«Beautiful humans,» He tells me

«This is where to grow them.»

He shows me a small game

We use spears to impale them

Tunnels and caverns;

I live and inhabit

Consciousness…

An intelligence that calls itself «Unity.»

An underground nervous system

I become unmoved while I absorb sunlight

You enact total war on creativity

Tunnels and caverns;

I live to inhabit

All sins ignored;

To enact my cells

There are others around me…

«Listen to me girl!

Your origin is unknown

Your waste in a thousand burning seas

Filth and desperation corrode your crevasses

Seek nothing into the dream affairs

Your ancestors were a plague.»

Wide open like a mouth

Guided with nothing now

At the mountains of madness

My overlord has left me alone

And only I know what pain is

Fluttering down on broad cheeks

The planet’s winds whip against me

Luminescent flashing

Mother burning underneath the ground

Or what I smell…

What is this?

Crashing life field

A passage

Am I the first visitor?

Neptune’s mouth;

The tentacle shows through the fabric now…