Sometimes the world is unreal, like a stage-set. The lighting is too surreal. It bathes everything in its frigid glow and freezes it.
The moon was casting a bright, hard blue glow, creating sharp shadows and inky pools. It transformed the countryside into ice.
It seemed to rush across the sky yet it was the clouds streaming by. Those clouds were high and wispy and formed into the scales of some huge celestial fish that glowed with life; the life that the moon was sucking from the land.
I did not know what to look at;
The wondrous rushing panorama of the sky or the frozen ocean of the land. They were both as magnificent and unreal.
It was a story of vastness and mystique. The eye and mind were held by the spectacle. It felt like a performance, a living piece of Art, yet it was so cold and devoid of warmth. It was a tableau of beauty yet without life.
I felt as if I was the only person in the whole universe who was witnessing it. It was exhilarating yet it sent a tremor of fear through my spine.
I knew one day it would perform its similar tricks and no eyes would be there to marvel.
WITHOUT ME
The large Moon gliding through
The illuminated scales
Of some giant surreal fish
With icy-blue bitter light
Bathing the fields
With stark clarity.
As the fields rolled in eerie relief
Like a crystalline sea
I found it hard to imagine
That the scene could exist
Without me.
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