The creature that crawled on the sky, Part I

There once was a creature that crawled on the sky
with very sharp teeth that caused people to die
Made only of bone and an instinct to kill
it wound over oceans and stalked over hills
Any village that found this thing at its door
very quickly became a village no more
One day, expecting the sunrise in the east
a child, instead, saw this shadowy beast
He thought to himself, I don't have much time
If I don't act quickly it's the end of the line
I can't save my village, I'm not yet a man
But I know of someone... something who still can
So he ran to the wastelands outside of town
And he stood on a hill and shouted aloud:
I've always been told not to come to this place
And to run if I ever caught sight of your face
But I think you might now be my town's only hope
So show yourself, he squeaked through the lump in his throat
It seemed for a moment that the whole world stood still
But then down his spine ran a horrific chill
Behind him: the one he both needed and feared
Silently, the skeleton harvester had appeared
Those leathery wings, that spidery hand
The boy was so frightened he barely could stand
The creature from tales that had haunted his sleep
was moving right toward him, ready to reap
Yet courage and self preservation prevailed
The boy voiced his plan, his gambit unveiled
I can see in your eyes that my bones aren't enough
(Though, for reasons quite clear, this was a bluff)
My skeleton is plain and really quite small
while over there is the rarest skeleton of all
That ivory creature is one of a kind
and if you fail to act now it will leave you behind
So don't waste your time ending my body/bone unity
Go and claim that unique harvesting opportunity
With fear in his heart and his breath, oh how bated
he gazed at the skeleton harvester
and he waited.


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