We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages. And those ages are gone, leaving hardly a sign and no memories. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there, there you could look at a thing monstrous...and free.Β Β The Heart of Darkness
Slowly ever so slowly Gliding above the burning things below Some still moved but we did not attend
We were tired of carrion food There was too much Still we could hear the distant passage Of a great beast Earth shaking roars and shrapnel filled flames Shaking the backs of our eyes We waited for that moment of stillness When the earth breathed between eruptions Just like that night in Stalingrad Or Gettysburg when the cannon stopped that summer afternoon All that could be heard were The groans of the wounded Then the clatter of the gunships returned The spell was broken Just as it began to move toward the lines of tracers and the 20mm rapid-fire, Flinging the broken skeleton of the city before it The beast met our eyes for a moment Shared a sly grin Then we knew it for our own Our private monster