1
The angles rose from moistened land
Were paralleled to each other
The beams came down from stricken sky
They nearly executed each other
They crissed and crossed and formed a maze
That no one dare to test
These angled roses and beams of light
A challenge to ye poses
2
Though in this garden I do hesitate
I wait and listen sharp
I dare not rush or gallop or trot
Lest they blast my living heart
I hear them creeping, seeping, slithering
Beneath the shallow sod
The water still, the air doth kill
For thick it is and odd
3
I press forward in the dampen fog
The chill of the creek does freeze my toes
The land uneven stutters my step
The stench of mold my nose offends
The Moon is bright; it’s guiding light the only comfort here
I close my eyes
I feel him rise
The visitor is near
4
All manner of insect are silent now
All night dwelling creatures are still
I feel the pressure shift and sounder
I know he’s near me
Still I wonder how he feels me enter
I know I covered my steps this way
Mother did teach me herself
I close my eyes and speak the phrases
That will swiftly bring me help
5
Adiuva me congnatione (help
me my family)
Infixus solo pedes mei
(my feet are stuck to the ground)
Talem cum venustate
ita me anticent (Such is the charm so ancient)
Protinus a victoria fine
( that gives me a victorious end)
The bare branches did sway
The wind did push me over
I swear the Moon did shine brighter
But his essence near me grew stronger
6
I lay in the muck cold and weeping
Holding fast what courage left I had
My hands do shake and shiver beneath me
I smell his ratchet soul advance
I hear his breath between my ears
I know he’s here! I feel him near!
And then a hand around my throat
Squeezeth air from my lungs
Bright and billowing I watch it
Leave my body in the night it hung
And in the moisture
Ever clear and apparent
His eyes stare back
His mouth doth shape
And his voice did echo near it
7
Why do you come here?
A deep and booming sound he had
Why do you stalk here?
No words from me could I give back
You are not welcome in
these timbers
I did not invite you,
you cannot come in
Return to your coven
Leave this place
henceforth
I wish to never see
you again!
8
The voice did rattle my heart in my chest
Its body full and deep
I swore if I were not possessed
My ear drums they’d pop as well as my chest
And leave me here to leak
I answered him not
Just stood to my feet and thrust my arms in the air
Palms to the sky
Eyes bright and wide
I recited this spell right here:
9
Absit a te, nostro
generi hominum daemonis
Capies e familia mea
Numquid si vita mortem
Ad mare rubrum
sanguinem proieci
Ut patribus vestris a
facie confusio vos facite
Tua opera fieri
infectum
Mea belli parta
Tu daemon fuerit a me,
(Away from my family
you demon man
You stalk out my
family
You cause death where
life should be
I cast you to the
blood red sea
May your ancestors
quake at the shame you did make
May your deeds be
undone
My our war be won
You demon man be gone from me)
10
His laugh did shake the ground
Rattle hard my resolve upon me
I stood fast with hands stretched
wide
Fingers spread above me
I sang the words from my throat
and bellowed them from my soul
I pushed so hard the ancient power
I could feel it shake my bones
But all he did was laugh
And sneer and chide and tease
You foolish child
You idiot spawn
You know not who you tempt be gone.
For if you were truly
Half the witch that is equal to your beauty
You’d not come here to banish
You’d stride with pride
Through obstacles wide
And know your father through me
I spoke not, just hung there
It seemed forever
Silent as a lamb asleep
My breath was deep
I fought against my need to weep
You’re a liar! I screamed. My
father is deceased.
He chided and he laughed
Then the night did know peace.
