The Moon
A white smudged dot on the misty sky peering onto the place where they live
the big and small ones with four legs, two legs, and the single-legged green ones
they have a myriad of motor skills and are not limited to revolving and rotating
they move in all directions and create many different sounds from their mouths
they huddle close together, they eat, they sleep, they kill, they fight, they bleed
they do so many things at once, how do they even coordinate their actions?
but the single-legged green ones and huge triangular brown ones do not move
how do they manage to stay in a single spot for millennia despite their huge size?
there are others that fly above them with wings in hundreds of shapes, colors, and sizes
the blue shaky, wavy liquidy surfaces move in themselves but not much outside
Many colored boxes of diverse sizes are constantly on the move upon wheels
there is a thick cloak of atmosphere protecting them from the wrath of the sun
but they get enough light and power to survive and go on with their daily routine
they devour the sun and the air around them but never give anything in return
why are they so many? what do they do? and why do I need to revolve round them?
Copyright © Onaiza Khan | Year Posted 2017
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