SHADOWS IN ORDINAL
When the Lord did speak the world to light
creatures and concepts stirred to life and breathed
and wandered. Some were impossibly bright
and cast deep shadows. Rumoured, half believed,
misunderstood, they wandered other planes
as ordinal, essential as the space
between our atoms. There where chaos reigns
they build the roads by walking, set the pace,
create, imagining sky, land, and sea,
lives great and small. Shape insubstantial, eye
perceiver, not perceived. Oh, to be free
in rudest darkness. But therein’s the lie
of life. Sup wine and song until you burst
or wander: what it means to be the first.
By lorepunk, in honour of dotta, ElfJTrul and bearsnake's Shadow Hats Ordinals collection