The song of the blue turtle
by Mike Meyer
The turtle realized a unit of time had passed
The exact nature of that unit was not an immediate concern
As a logical progression
The passage became a process
These same units were continuing to pass
This passage brought the realization that a song may exist
No, it was now clear that a song must exist
Careful exertion raised a foreleg
A step was taken
The first step to the song
Songs, true songs, must be reached
By careful exertion of immense force
The structure of all things must be shaped
A resonant structure envisioned
And then made to move through space and time
To reach the reality that, then, includes the song
The turtle continued to step from process to process
with great care and a complete lack of thought
Replacing each unit of time
with a vibration from each balanced step
The universe of the turtle filled with infinite strings
of rhythmic thought
Once begun there was no end and the process continued
The turtle was the song of the universe and the concept of space with time
as a blue shadow where no shadow had ever been
A universe of blue turtles in endless song
