{"sf1_id":948443,"sf2_id":"rn6LybEe","title":"Sylph","author":"Matt Foxwolf","words":174,"posted_at":"2015-12-26T10:37:00.000Z","tags":["Magic","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/948443-sylph","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn6LybEe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/7e/09/7e09f45b-639b-4ebb-a727-451dd5506da0","description":"#3 of Po-eems\n\nWritten this past summer.","content":"Sylph\n\nIt's only the wind...\n\nBodiless in flight, immaterial in falling  \nBeautiful to behold yet equally appalling  \nFrom what titanic loins did you children spring?  \nProgeny of Cronos, do you scour what you touch?  \nWhelps of Odin, do you give or bring word?  \nDo you not wish to be seen, because you are always heard?\n\nVessels of the voice and of music,  \nCarriers of truth and lie,  \nInvisible, invincible, infinite  \nEver flowing and always touching  \nLike an old friend, like a young lover  \nSometimes hateful, sometimes hurtful  \nAbove victim's corpses do you even hover\n\nCall out a name, you call back in like a voice  \nA god roars, you equal in tone and temperament  \nAs you push away water  \nAs you shove into fire  \nAs you devour stone, wood, and dirt  \nYou will remain\n\nInvisible, Invincible, Infinite\n\nIt's only the wind  \nYou are only the wind  \nThe wind is only you  \nare the wind  \nand the wind  \nIs you\n\nSpiral into eternity, eternity's spiral\n\nYou will consume everything  \nIn your mouth of time  \nAir\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Po-eems","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/944636-in-misty-pools-way-down-below.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/950154-sharpen-sticks.json"}}