I've Seen Things
''What about you, have you seen anything interesting?''
''Me? Yeah I've seen things, things that I can't quite believe.''
''Like what exactly? Impress me.''
''I've seen terrible things
I've been to war, I've witnessed its horror.
I saw a shower of shells rain down from the ash.
Obliterating my men, reducing them to bits of smoking flesh.
Shards of glass scattered the ground, their blood splattered
across the soil. I gazed in horror as they rapidly perished.
I've seen a naval ship on fire, burning across the endless
sea. The chaos almost matching that of a volcanic eruption.
It was a blazing ocean as the raging flames consumed
everythingbut all I could do was watch from afar, helpless
to save the men caught up in the monstrous inferno.
I've seen remarkable things.
I've seen a woman survive an eighteen metre drop. She
was trying to rescue a cat but she slipped, she fell so
fast but she lived and that sparked hope in my grieving
heart. I've witnessed a man win a fight against a polar bear.
It knocked him to the icy floor with a heavy blow from its paw.
Its claws cut through him as if he were made of paper.
He didn't give up, he persisted despite being half ripped open.
He thrusted his blade in to its head. He lives to this day to
tell that story.
I've seen incredible things.
I've seen a lagoon illuminated by an unknown light source.
An array of colours reflected seemingly out from nowhere.
The night sky was clear, clearer than a blue sky on a
sunny day. It was like a ripple from a splash of a rainbow.
Colours danced on the surface of the water until fading
out a few minutes later.
I've seen the moonlight change colour and shape.
First a pale white, then a peachy colour before transforming
to a deep red as the clouds trimmed its circular form,
turning it in to a crimson, crescent moon.
I've seen impossible things.
Otherworldly sights no human has ever gazed upon.
A vortex of vibrant shapes, rich colours no eye has
ever studied. It lead me to witness an impossible sight.
The crumbling cliffs of indigo valley.
A place on a distant planet, a world on the cusp of a
purple portal. I watched as it evaporated, dissolved,
vanished in to oblivion.
The condensed cascade of purple light imploded right in
front of me as I watched it dematerialise.
Imagine a sunset upon a sapphire sea, still and calm.
Then watch as it gets ripped away from your very eyes.
The image never leaves you, it gets embedded in your
mind like a photograph.
My memories may haunt me but I wouldn't trade them for
anything in the universe. I have seen all of these things.
So let me ask you this, are you impressed yet?''
by Danny Gurnett
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