Horror is my love language
through which the eternal carved
my divine array
I flow as Time
flows through itself
by restraint of shape,
I am the Ocean
piercing itself
by the constraint of flesh
set into hunger's
form, I flow,
with the same purpose
as Chronos,
To Devour All
My soul essence's
go-forward
as the clock
as it is of Time
to perish
if it stops
Out of the Ocean
comes all life
and to me
it all comes back
See my clock
tick
with
teeth,
divine in my rows
the expanse
of my symmetry,
the geometry
of my pace,
the span
of eternity
carved in my skeleton:
The Teeth Temple,
the tempo of bones
whose substance is time
and to Time return
in my jaws,
as all life
is mine
and can only be so
in Chronos' kingdom
Here dissolve
the Rulers of the Sky
and my eyes
need not their glimmer,
I am a gliding pillar
whose ends are
a frozen sun
and a moon
that burns
My constellation is
the calcium corpse
cemetery deep
in the garden
of everdarkness
that is the mirror
of Luna's mien
never shown,
shineless
as the Ocean's floor
My
spinal
column
totems time,
engraved
image of
Chronos
in vertebras'
rhymes
My sinews are
the Ledger of the Sea
and as water holds
I digest
space into memories,
the Ocean's Vault
and its recall
My
digestive
tract
is the process of history,
as I pierce the Ocean
and the Ocean pierces me,
clepsydra of destiny:
I am the Ocean's clock
that never stops,
my true form
my skeleton:
—Invertebrate Horologe—
—Death's Metronome—
—Gnomon of the Sunless Dial—
Photo by Adam Hanlon
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I've never read anything more beautiful and descriptive about a shark! This is brilliant, Benno!
Benno! With the updated profile picture! Very nice.
Shark being compared to Chronos is such a scary thought and it is also fantastic. There was some sick lines in here.
" I am a gliding pillar" 😱
"shineless / as the Ocean's floor"
"My sinews are / the Ledger of the Sea" It makes me think of how trees have those age rings, but, in this ocean, the trees move and devour!
"clepsydra of destiny:"👏🔥