Analysis of The Two.
In the beginning, before light shone upon a desolate landscape, of infant galaxies and developing stars, there were only two
And they sat alone, atop an ether of vast nothingness
A blackness that would be unfathomable, even to the dead, as it stretched from end to end of a baron universe
Save for the flame that burned between them, the only existence in an other wise non existent forever, and they huddled between that heat for unknown eons, as eons had yet to creep from below the vail
In this before time, there were two, a man and a women, tangled by threads unseen
He was something made of the vastness that engulfed them, dark and unimaginable
Whisks of his being floated from his being in unpredictable fashion, only to float out to the sea of black, like the flames of the fire that they shared with another
His eyes, dark and hollow, could only be seen under the flicker of that flame, and they set only upon her, his love
She was a pariah upon the vast nothing, as her soul emitted light so faint, yet so pure, that it hurt for him to stare for more than a moment
It danced across the universe as his black wind hitched a ride, unseen
Her eyes sparked bright explosions amidst the flame, rivaling even that of the beauty that was to come, and they cast upon him whenever his being shimmered against her light
He was her love, and longed for the darkness within, wanting nothing more than to cast it beyond, so they could embrace in her love
This went on for eternity
Huddled against a flame that never ended, upon the backdrop of an unborn universe
He, never able to look upon her for more than a moment, else be blinded by her love
She, wishing to cast the nothing that seemed to come from his being, back into the nothing, so that the two could embrace for the same eternity that surround them
Yet they knew, behind deaths hollowed eyes, and life’s glowing ember of love, that there peace would soon be gone
For beyond there flame, that was beginning to die away, back into the ether, they could feel the tingle of something bigger than the two
There was something happening to the quiet place, a rumble that echoed between them
He glanced once more upon her, hoping to see her smile, just one more time, but felt shame as watched the flame ember diminish into nothing
And then, in the nothing, there was only her faint glow, and the vast backdrop
He, was swallowed by the darkness, staring at her with all his might
She danced across his vision, floating across a soon to be horizon, gaining more and more of the light that came from her
The dark fought a losing battle, trying to push her away from its grip it held on the two, but she was made of life, and love
In an instant, she became the vastness, reaching out in all directions, pummeling the nothing with her essence
Crowding the ether with new parts of her being, as stars and planets began to line the universe
It was beauty untold, to see life begin
And he wept
In the beginning, there were two
Life and Death, and they huddled between a flame of there own souls, forever between a backdrop of an unborn universe
Until the first day of time, when she gave life to the vast nothing, and left him to wander her creation
Until the final day of her life, he collects the pieces that she scatters, hoping that one day, he can put her back together
And it will just be two once more, amidst a burning flame, on a backdrop of there souls
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Metre | 000100111010100111010000100110101 011010111011100 01011101000101011111111101010 1101110110100100110110100100110011110110110111110101 01011101010010101101 11101101010111001000 111101011100010010101111011110110101111010 11101011011100101110111001011 1100100101101010101111111111111111010 1101010111110101 0111010010110010110101111011011010110100101 1101011010011010111110111101001 11110100 100101110100101111110 11010110101110101110101 1101101011111110101010110110110101001011 111011101011010111111111 1011111010110110101011101011010101 111010010101010110011 111101010110111111111101100100110 01001011100110011 1110101010101111 110111010010111010101011011110 0110101010110011111110111111101 0110101010101010101000101010 100101111010110100111010 11100111101 011 00010101 1010110010111110100101111110 01011111111101100111100010 0101011011010101111011111101010 01111111010101101111 |
Characters | 3,475 |
Words | 682 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 33 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 82 |
Words per line (avg) | 19 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Written on March 01, 2022
Submitted by zchapa101 on April 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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