the sky

i wrote about the sky in my neocities and wanted to share it here:

There's no fright like the one that stabs like a lost lover's touch. You know the one - you'll look at something so beautiful, so horrifying, and it'll carress the nape of your neck with its fingertips. Your eyes will turn wide - écarquiller, English simply cannot convey it like the French. "Il s’excusa gracieusement de quitter le salon et sortit ayant envie de dormir autant que de s’aller noyer : le démon de la curiosité lui écarquillait les yeux, et de sa main délicate ôtait le coton que le Chevalier avait dans les oreilles."

The sky. This beautiful angel of ours. Ours ! His gorgeous face, ever-changing. We've got Ouranos looking down at us and yet - and yet we never deign to look back and say hello. You're all so entranced with the moon and stars and clouds and -

It's too wide of a sky. Too wide. It curves at the edges and yet remains infinite. If I stare for too long, I'll fall in. Were the ancients not scared of the sky falling unto them? I suppose I've got it backwards, but for good reason ! Am I not the one suspended by the feet?

When it rains, you thank the clouds, not the sky. How come?

I wish I had wings so I could fly high enough to pass the blue between my fingers. Sky, let down your fragrant locks ! They make my nose red and my lungs burn, but sitting in your shade is more refreshing than smoking peppermint.

Sky, I'll stand in an open field and stare at you if I ever want to scare myself into enjoying life to the fullest. What a grim reminder of my size that you are ! Come down here and get on my level, you arrogant blue devil !

You're ours - you belong to humanity. It is done ! We'll scar you like we did the Earth, black bands of asphalt, hideous cuts across her gentle skin. It'll happen to you, too ! Have you not felt the poke of skyscrapers ? The punch of a rocket ? Admit it !

Out of all robes, you chose the one with the rarest colour on Earth. That couldn't have been a coincidence. Blue ! Animals have evolved to split light to achieve your colour ! Vibrant, vibrant blue !

Delicious orange, charming pink, comforting black, you can do it all, angel ! I hope to adorn my lover with all of your colours.

Keep protecting us from the great beyond, angel of mankind. I love you more than I fear you.