The Birth of Sentience on Aggraboth V
A green jungun raises her head
Out of the black primeval muck.
She spreads her rainbow hued neck frill
And stares at the huge crimson sun.
The sight ignites a mental spark;
Enlightenment widens her world.
Strange ideas course through her brain
And fill her mind with new notions.
“Who am I?” she wonders gravely,
“And what might I be doing here?
How was all this I see first made?
Is there a purpose to my life?
And what may greet me at life’s end?”
With clearer vision than before
Her amber eyes look all around.
They espy her scaly comrades
Feeding on some armoured quibbibs,
Oblivious to her wondrous
Contemplative epiphany.
Anxious to share her new-found thoughts
She opens her fanged maw and roars;
Junguns lack a spoken language
To put concepts into real words.
Disappointed at her failure,
She sheds a tear and sinks back down
Into the primordial ooze.
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Authors: Richard H. Fay. Form: Illustrated, Poem. Length: 26 lines. Editor who accepted this story: Previous Editors. Reprint History: Originally published in The Fifth Di…, Edition 10, #1, March 2008
Author Bio
Richard H. Fay is a published artist, illustrator, poet, and writer of non-fiction, as well as an amateur medievalist, folklore nut, fan of classic speculative literature, and avid reader of true tales of the supernatural and the unexplained.
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