4PG002 - Laura B. Greig

Beyond the legend of the Jade Rabbit and the immortals teaching her the elixir of life on the Moon, we have much literature of her adventures stretching throughout the ages. This piece is a reference to a poem by Sweettooth Tail:

As I went by the docks on an evening so fair
It was marred by farewells to the Jade Rabbit there
Her moonship, the Arrow, was solid in time
And being prepared for its heavenly climb

She waved to us all, we cried our goodbyes
Then upward she disappeared into the skies
But before she was gone a thought gave me a chill
That for a moment I saw that the ship had stood still

That it never had left from the moment before
In that instant previous to the rockets roar
That motion is what has robbed us of love
As now there nothing but naught up above

And I thought to myself, I refuse to believe
In this horrid creation that’s caused us to grieve
In any one durationless instant of when
The Arrow was here and there but then

I will only believe in instances hence 
And forever be rid of this ticking nonsense
For then the Jade Rabbit would remain with us still
And our love would endure, a second fulfill