A Gift From The Heavens

Just beyond a mystical village, a puzzling tribute descends from the skies.

The Oracle Bones murmured of her arrival

During their casting down into the temple courtyard 

With a spiral of flame amongst drum-heartbeats did none listen。

The fibers of thatched roofs

In a wintertime morn 

Anxious quails decamped the canopy 

As the firmament began to bleed the tones of esoteric 

The heavens delivered its offspring 

Into the hinterlands, where hydrae festered in biting mud

Attention, unrest, resentment, cowering  

The Sage endeavored to examine what the constellations had mothered 

Fervent prayers lighted & smoked the temple

Across the artless creek

He did trek through fae forests

Did hear them susurrate from thorny hedge

And at the lips of the bluff entranced in cerulean glow

A babe of lotus petals

Of night's spontaneity

The child of a-once-adolescent Luna & Sol

Clayed into anthropomorphic body & sifted in gold   

The Sage did appeal to the presently unmoving azure heavens

With his doves of thanksgiving & commoner's faith  

Back to the village roads the duo retreated

Amidst the blossoming evening shadows 

Of beasts emaciated for the gods' daughter 

Beasts issued not from Above but from The Below