Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 11:02

Amazing Neil Gaiman Poem

I just read the most amazing poem by Neil Gaiman, published on SpiderWords. I'm not really into poetry much, but sometimes one will just resonate with me - this is one of those. Here's the first two verses, but go and read the whole thing, because it's the ending that pulls the whole thing together.

That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,

Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,

And the people of Earth stood and stared as they descended,

Waiting, dry-mouthed to find what waited inside for us

And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow

But you didn't notice it because

That day, the day the saucers came, by some coincidence,

Was the day that the graves gave up their dead

And the zombies pushed up through soft earth

or erupted, shambling and dull-eyed, unstoppable,

Came towards us, the living, and we screamed and ran,

But you did not notice this because

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