1,001 Eyes

It opens come nightfall.

The moon. The right eye of God.

The eye that shines against the black.

The eye that watches over us as we rest.

It blinks slowly. Full to half to crescent to nothing, and then back.

Then come the others.

The stars. 999 other eyes, circling the greatest right eye.

Decorating the right half of the face of God.

Together, they form one thousand.

One thousand right eyes in the darkness, watching over us all.

And then comes the dawn.

So close the right eyes of God.

And so opens the sun. The left eye of God.

The eye the illuminates the world.

The eye that gives life to the world.

Never blinking. Never closing before its time.

It watches over us as we rise from slumber and begin again our work.

One thousand eyes to watch in the night.

One eye to watch in the day.

1,001 eyes.

Watching over us without rest, without reward.

Through clouds and storms and strife.

They have watched, since our dawn.

They will watch, until our dusk.