Art by Dave Lebow
A delicious meal, being made, by a ferociously starved giant,
A pinch of salt, to bring out the bitter sweetness
In the young tender meat, marinating in a cage of fear
As the broth stirs into a simmer, begging, for the ingredient
That’s making the giant salivate, at the trembling pot,
The giant, glances over to the far end of the counter,
Finding two shivering, overtly malnourished children,
The beastly giant licks her lips, collecting the excess saliva,
And all the children can do, is stare, as they drown in distress,
Trying to ignore the storm brewing, in the giant’s empty gut
That exudes a thunderous rumble, calling out, to those meat sacks
Who were scanning the oversized kitchen, for deliverance,
But to no avail, they were still caged, in a living nightmare,
Wondering, if they’d survive, the bleakest of moments,
They couldn’t even recall, how many moon cycles have passed
Since they were abducted, picked right off their backyard tree
Where they had spent days, staring up at the stationary cloud,
Legend of its gray presence, pervade the town’s sense of security,
Curiosity, distracted the two children, who lived in discomfort,
Struggling with the abundancy of their impoverishment,
They perched upon the top branch, trying to distance themselves
From the swarming straits, affecting their cold home,
At the same time, climbing closer to the gray fixation,
Is it possible, that the giants in the cloud, are without melancholy,
A shared daydream, that haunted the children’s cognizance,
Now, aware and locked, in the their own caged disquiet
They find the giant, approaching with their stringy fingers
Clawing it’s way, through the impermeable gray,
Straight, towards the earthquake rattle, of the cage,
The giant lifted the steel entrapment, to face it’s delicacy,
The children scurry, as far away, from the giants face,
Which is pressed up to the tiny bars, squeezing
Its nose in, and inhaling, their sweet delicious aroma,
“Not to worry, your torment ends, as soon as you hit the broth,
Boiling, calling out for you, and yes, even the broth is excited,
How lucky I was, to have sniffed out, your perfume.”
Indeed the giant was lucky to have tumbled and stumbled
Out of the cloud after, what seemed like a purgatorium search,
She scored for the last ingredient, which became a rarity,
For the land has grown scarce, of this highly sought after delicacy,
The most hunted, for it is the tastiest and most tender meat,
Wondering, with her sight hazy, and rapidly diminishing
She followed a scent, her nose kept calling her onward
As she failed to notice, the edge, of her depleting world,
Sending her crashing down, to the wanderlust children,
She caused a colossal commotion, sending onlookers
To their windows and doors, spying at the settling dust,
Awaiting for the cause, to be unveiled from beyond the curtain,
With the aid of an oncoming storm, its gusting winds
Pushed aside the veil, and there she was, the monstrous giant,
But to the children, she was salvation, the answer to their query,
As the townspeople gathered arms, the children softly approached
And recognized, the trembling, in the giants wide stare
That was following the chaos, that started to swarm
The unknown, an empty land, except for tasty treats,
It was hard to breathe, to inhale the air’s thickness,
Her hunger, was ferociously tearing herself up inside
But her attention, was now on the lack of breath
And how quickly, the town readied their defences,
The townspeople anticipated this moment, knew of its existence,
So when she fell, the atomic tremor, had awoken the riot,
And yet, the children’s curiosity, pulled them forward,
The town behind them, filling the night with a raging fire
They called out to her, as she still layed in her self made canyon,
“Giant! We are tired of this world and want to see where you reside.”
She gave a soft nod, and layed her hand for them to climb
Which had outraged the town ever further into fury,
She had the children in her hand and towered,
Saw the onslaught of the town quickly advancing,
Looked around, and saw a mountain, with its peak in the clouds,
That’s where she can get back to her own familiarity,
Her stride, had a much farther reach, that she pulled ahead
And lost the town within moments, as she neared her stairway,
She needed her hands, so she shoved the children into her pocket
The mountain was before her, and it was a simple ascension,
Eager and excited as she easily made her way back home,
Easier to breathe, as her hunger was now again, her focus,
Which brings us here, to her bouquet of aromas
That is taking over her entire home, a delicious allure,
She seasoned the broth with spices and homegrown vegetables
As the children wanted so much, to engulf the contents,
Only, they were to be the last addition to the waiting concoction,
They damned their own lust for something different
As the giant reached for the children, prying them off the bars,
And now all they had to hold onto, was each other,
Dangling above the steaming pot, they could swear they saw a face
In the overturning broth, with splattering lava
Jumping out from the quaking pot, almost burning their bare feet,
The boy looked at his sister, hugged her tighter
And just as they were let go, to plunge into the volcanic pot,
He shoved her, just outside its reach, as he plummeted,
She heard his terror filled cries, as she hid behind tall food scraps,
The giant, blind from hunger, didn’t even notice,
But before long, the giant had a full stomach and a wide smile,
And when a giant is that full, it desperately needs to sleep,
Leaving the kitchen a mess, and the girl to her lonesome
It’s a perfect opportunity, for the now angry girl, still in hiding,
Just like climbing up and down her tree, just outside her window,
She climbed, to the giants throat, and avenged her brother
With a chipped off piece of a knife, left out on the counter
That she had acquired, from the rage that filled her heart,
She ran the fragment across the blubbered gully
As the giant bled out, dying whith a belly full of deliciousness,
And the girl, never left, she stayed in the clouds.
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