Twelve

The ride was not too long
The fog was misty, warm
That’s when we heard thundering footsteps

I looked overhead and saw
Dropships, flying dragons,
and their walking machines

I ran into the cargo hold to fetch
Mother
She was asleep under the blankets
I told her what I saw, and she
Ran up to see for herself

At this time they noticed us
The roaring of the machines was
frightening as they turned toward us
Lasers lit up like wild
And Danny managed to turn on the motor

Our boat wasn’t the fastest,
But it helped us get away

But we ran into more of their machines
The dragons are cunning
They didn’t care if you were a dog
They’d silence you
They’d send in thousands of troops to
silence just one person because of what you knew

But what we feared of the dragons
Were their God’s children
Their “God” (their father) trusts only a
handful of his children to enter the battlefield

The natives call these children “Demons”
The Italians call them “Angels”
We, the Americans, call them
“Monsters,” because they looked scary

I got my first glimpse of this monster
As we passed the threshold from
Swamp City into Periliocene

Our boat had stopped in the caverns
And Danny and Father had to push the boat
At the end of the tunnel was a waterfall

The view beyond the waterfall was breathtaking
The top of the caverns was connected to the bottom
because of those tall and wide stone pillars that
were created by thousands of years of water erosion
The daylight could peak itself through
It was dark in there and the swamps in the cave were shallow

Danny had to find another way around
That longer route had taken us to the
Foot of the caverns

We heard singing…

It was Amolita Queen, I’m sure of it
She belongs to the Vessel

When we left the caverns we wandered into the swamp land
Eggs were floating in the water
And a family of Mama Angelinas were sleeping soundly
But the outside was less forgiving
Our boat sailed by unnoticed as I saw people running out of apartments
And being shackled and dragged away by the walking dragons
Would we be next?

And then déjà vu turned her head towards us
Over our heads, one of those “monsters”
was slowly descending over us
and an armada of troops followed behind it
I couldn’t see the wingless monster’s face
But it didn’t take long for the armada to start shooting

Danny pumped the motor as I ducked for cover with Mother
The boat started up, very slowly
and several of those Monsters had appeared over us
their roar was sounded like a shrill scream of fury
and happiness that burned my ears

the creature above us picked up our boat
Danny held onto me
but I tried to break away
Mother was slipping
I didn’t care if the creature inside her was coming out
I didn’t care about her screaming
I wanted to catch her before she fell
The only reason those monsters want us
Is because of the dragon my Mother carried within her
But she slipped, you see. She really did slip.
I miss her already.

~ © Nipaporn Baldwin

Blog: Princess Lilo

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