Super Natural Being

Eyes like fantastic moons that shiver in some stagnant lake

folded like a white rose-leaf

hair was golden as tints of sunrise

tongue is like a scarlet snake.

It took on deep roar as of a cloven world

running to and fro like frightened sheep

face as imperturbable as fate.

It began to roar with that sibilant sound which resembles the hiss of a serpent

and turned on me like a thunder-cloud.

Frightened like a child in the dark

anxiety hung like a dark impenetrable cloud.

My face collapsed as if it were a pricked balloon

And my hair was as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes.

My impulse came and went like fireflies in the dusk.

Life stretched before me alluring and various as the open road

like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp

my body broken as a turning wheel.

My breath travel to Heaven like vapor goes

And my head was like a great bronze bell with one thought for the clapper.

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer

my mind swayed idly like a water-lily in a lake.

My spirit seemed to beat the void, like the bird from out the ark

My thoughts came yapping and growling round me like a pack of curs

fled like a spirit from the room.

I vanished like the shapes that float upon a summers dream.