~ Verdant Songbook ~

- Hymn of Darkness -

Death dances in the Dust
and blade and bullet
and flirts with the finger
that clenches on the trigger
but hesitates to pull it.

Death glows red in the mask
that covers the face
of an amalgam of darkness,
and sparkles green against
the black of the wings
of a more birdlike one.

Death seduces with swords
and spears, more than words.
With the swing of a mace,
the stinging kiss of an arrow,
or a whip's unforgiving embrace,

Death beckons,
drawing the hunters down
into the cold depths
where those creatures can
no longer reach them.

~oOo~