It was a being found
on the very edges of known reality
without size or shape, voice or smell.
It was captured by dark means alien to us,
until now chained by forces
as strange as the being itself
and brought to a prison of no design
to be punished for no crime.
You may visit it if you are special
and are given special permission.
You will travel to a baking desert
within a frozen desert
beneath a sky without colour, sun or stars,
a windless place perfectly still.
There you will see a decahedron
made of a metal not native to Earth,
illuminated by soft lights neon-blue and red
hanging from chains in a vast black space
without knowable limits or brinks.
What it wants with us we do not know.
What we want with it is also not yet known.
Unseen, unheard, unknowable,
this creature resides there now,
or so we are told.
