through mine eyes

As a people, the modern age fascinated and perplexed them. They yearned for a simpler time, when the Sun was still just the son of the Moon, and she was still the goddess that came down and spoke to them through their dreams. The Rocks and Trees they lived amongst had changed and were no more, or perhaps the spirits that inhabited these hollow vessels had since moved on.

In any case, once swelling with promise and glimmering with life, now the world seemed grey and sullen, like a pot of tea leaves already used one too many times.

And so, they decided to leave.

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 "Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me 
 Where did you stay last night? 
 I stayed in the pines where the sun don't never shines 
And shivered when the cold wind blows"