Scribe
Chapter 5: Shockwaves
By Woman of Letters
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SPN 100 Challenge: Word of the Week: Scale
In Which Metatron Experiences the Trauma of Birth
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At the break, the shock.
A limb severed,
As Father first breathed into
The lumpen bodies,
Placing part of His essence
Into the first man.
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Heaven reverberated
With that breath.
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The tremor subsided
And all Angels learned to ignore
The birthing pains
Of a human delivery.
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All Angels but me.
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Attuned to Heaven's rhythms,
My nerves jarred with each discordant note
Of Father's surgical cacophony.
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The scales of Heaven
Unbalanced
Pure melody
From major to minor
Peppered with that single
Blatant
Aural blemish.
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Every imperfection.
Jangling
Tangling
Wracking
Wrangling
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Enough!
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My soul cried out.
Father, have you not given them enough?
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A/N I apologize, dear readers, for the lack of proper spacing in this chapter. I have wrestled with Fanfiction's interface, trying my hardest to put spaces between certain lines. It really does make a difference in the emphasis and in how you read it. The spacing is so important in how you read the poem here that I put the dreaded three x's in place of line breaks... Please try to pretend those x's are empty line breaks and read accordingly. :) If any of you know how to get FF to properly leave empty lines, please do tell me!
This chapter - and the next are is a huge turning point for Metatron. Next chapter already written and soon to be uploaded. Comments are much appreciated!
Woman of Letters