The Castle Literary Magazine


Spring 2003 | Volume 57 Issue 2


By Kai Trevor Brost ’03

The CYRILL

Deep in space light years away they used to live
An ancient life form a hundred times more intelligent than human life
They lived without insanity, crime and destruction
until they brought home specimens from earth
When one earthling entered the secret room of invisible might
A line of seven deadly stars created themselves
Only two were released into space
While five remained in Altair's soil
My poor Cyrill
You should have vaporized everything that was from earth
But now Cyrill steel has begun to melt in endless cycles
And no water form earth will ever bring it to a halt