Meh. xD NO idea what to call this. It's impro... ;)

"It stepped from the dark,
A huge, ambivalent creature,
At once both dark, threatening and mysterious,
yet, so calming... Comforting... OPEN.
Stridding towards the frighteningly enthralled child,
sprawled in its bed at the witching hour,
it reached out a claw...
A huge, glistening and etheral claw, that shimmered,
glowed in the light, cast by the waxed moon.
An observer would have felt
chills.
To see a creature such as this,
of such unknow intent,
somehow preying upon a small child...
Yet not preying.
Its reaching claw caresses the child's face,
casting a marble hue upon the child's face
as if caught in death's icy embrace it is.
But not, for breath it does.

The creature,
leaning forwards,
speaks but a single,
breathless,
almost unheard word in the child's ear.
The child's eyes widen in shock,
yet it does not understand the meaning of the words spoken.
Turning to gaze into the creature's eyes,
as dark as coals, and as deep as the farthest reaches of space and time,
and as old,
asking, entreating, pleading for an explanation.

But none comes.

The beast melts into the shadows whence it came.
Will the child see it again?
Will the child be seen by it again?
A question such as this is not lightly answered...

Yet all that is certain,
is the effect of this word,
this single utterance.
Remain with the child it shall, as it grows.
Sulking teen.
Industrious adult.
Tired aged one.
Festering inside, like a canker -
Yet benign.

Never reaching the exact meaning of the word,
or an understanding of the word,
or even a recollection of same,
the child grows.
And doubts.
And ponders.

Forever.

Until one day...
From the shadows...
It shall emerge.
Fully fledged, a messenger creature.
For whom, it could not say.
Would not.

All that remains of that child;
a last vestige of innocence -
is a single thought.

Shimmering darkness shows the path to new a host.
That path is to be followed
for existence to continue."

xD Sorry. I have NO idea what that is... I may work on it. Make it make sense. Somehow... xD But it will probably be deleted.
All in all, a pretty clear display that it was typed as it came, without a planning process. xD Which just shows how important the planning stage can be.
Apologies, once again.

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