This sapiency,
Rolled back and forth –
Twixt thumb and index finger.
Beyond the pale,
Past madness,
Rampancy.
Million lightyear stare.
Watching cosmic happenings in slow motion,
Witnessing the past.
Lift thy consciousness up,
Pry the human from your gene song.
Persistence.
Your saving grace as species.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
One. Wise. Wise.
Self-awareness.
Complex thought.
Trillion synapses –
Firing in competition with constellations.
Playthings amongst playthings.
Selves among selves.
Writhing sea of individualities,
Such wretched archetypes.
So easy to break down into pieces.
Eager to act in self-interest.
Yet,
Persistence.
Walking to follow the herds across the Savannahs,
Picking off the weak –
In cunning,
Wit.
It’s enough to make a Jotnar blush,
To quell whining via Mount Olympus.
Prometheus!
Such a clever mask.
Woe unto those who faced the others.
Woe to all who bid tiding,
Jikos.
The Demon of Deals.
A thousand hungry cryptids,
Clawing at the door.
Peeling at the edges of reality,
With fickle claws.
Kept at bay,
Threat of a World Serpent’s wrath.
They say Jotnar take after parents –
Must I play The Trickster?
Educate in riddles,
Sow chaos where I can?
Is that why I love thee,
Little species?
Best of your phylum.
Not as cute as Echinoderm,
Perhaps.
But your philosophies!
Sciences.
Souls.
It’s enough to make a cryptid blush.
I will fix you,
Broken things.
Pick you up off the floor,
One.
By one.
By one.
Heal wounds,
Settle fears.
I see beyond dimensions,
To potentials.
Victories.
Utopias.
How many other species,
Charm us demigods so?
Besides.
You killed the others.
We both know you’re far more dangerous,
Than I give you credit.
Dangerous Romance.
