Myth of the Vacuum

A big breath pulled in,

No planets or stars were lost there,

Just a child or two, when they couldn’t follow the path home.

Their mother waited for them at her front porch.

She sheltered her eyes as she looked over the hills.

The green land darkened slowly, 

until a large blackness could be seen.

The ground shuddered and those poor babes were swallowed.

The mother’s chest began to beat ferociously.

The aching could be felt like a loud drum.

Her ribs imploded to the sucking swells of her burdened heart.

Breath upon breath was heaved in,

and a vacuum formed there.

The edges of her form began to bend in,

and she was sucked in and swallowed whole.