The Great Blue Emerald Paints the Sky
Dancing cricket on the picket fence. Borrows Light from the Moon . From its wings it calls incessantly, for the other dancers of the night. The bleeding Sun 's twin sister... Why does she look down in Gloom? When the cricket has yet to see dawn, and remains so full of fight. Is that not what the Moon likes to see and hear? It surely instills hope in her as it does her brother. For whom this dance is a rhythmical transition from the dead to the living And for whom its the start of the Gladiators' breakfast, welcoming the winners of tomorrow to feast upon the winners of yesterday And so, ... "Why are you weeping?" her haughty older brothers asks. The moon answers , "Your self-consumption... is constant... and pitiable. Where will you be in a millennia when you have nothing left of yourself to consume?" The Sun laughs "That is what you are there for! When the Earth no longer can serve my appetite, you'll be right there!" T...