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Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
     No slumber dreamt; no answer could I get.

Eurasian owl with orbs of liquid flame
     My every stride a prideful, haunting game.
Then, fate unveiled upon a gnarled limb
    I, no mercy watched the hunted 
     stand grim.

A rifle cracked. A feather's silent fall.
     Forrest convulsed: lifeless body, empty hull.

In moonlit boughs of ancient, Fortingall Yew trees,
     Where shadows twine and twist with eerie ease,
A serpent of smoke licks my dying fire, hissed.
     A tarnished quill, a strigiform, mocks my quest,
Scrawling nightmares on this haunted, hallowed crest.

Runes of vengeance etched in bark, ancient and stark,
     Throb crimson 'neath the moon's cold watchful mark.
This crumbling shrine where trophies once held sway
     Is now a visceral warning at the close of each day.
Yet in those Amber eyes watching 
      dreadful!
      dismay!

Of deeds, they taunt, dreams forever lain,
     Feathers, like lost dreams plucked, bear cold and pain.
The tarnished quill is a taxidermied spine of ice
    Inscribes his vengeful design a chilling price.
Buried beneath a sky of obsidian reason takes flight.
     Through spectral night each rustle a talon of fright.
In boughs where nightmares crawl, no sanity found
     Only the shadows stalked their fallen king, precarious.
And in those Amber eyes, demise, perdition, carious.

"Remember, mortal," screech fills the chilling air,
     "The eyes you stole, forever watching, ever there."
From his perch above the hearth a gnarled branch, shines his ire,
     Twin orbs of Amber pierce my soul's dark, smoldering pyre.
They burn with secrets, hidden by the cloak of night,
     Reflecting sins in their unyielding, haunting light.
The quill, a conduit, upon my hand it bled,
     Each stroke a tremor, each letter, a burning brand that feeds.
And in those Amber eyes,
    doom
     malediction 
     my shame.

Madness burrows a spider silk of terror in my skull
     Webs of horror petrified where reason wanes turns cold.
Amber eyes unblinking, 
     piercing, Oh, so cold!
     Mock my torment acerbic as each tale unfolds.
As moon wanes pale fresh shadows coalesce
     The cabin shudders 
     secrets released 
     enmeshed.
Whirlwind of feathers 
     pinions tore 
     stillness 
    swish
     And in those Amber eyes doom 
     my penance 
     deranged.
And in those Amber eyes death,
     penance
     must be paid.

A sudden tremor 
     not of wind or 
      leaf nor 
      breeze
     A feathered silence whisps through the ancient Yew trees.
From moonlit depths a spectral form takes flight.
     The Eurasian Eagle-Owl ascends bathed 
     in the ghastly light.
Thrice he circles a haunting serenade.
     His gaze a portal to an endless 
     shadowed glade.
My stolen prize once perched 
     upon this gnarled limb
     Now soars above reclaiming 
     vengeance, itself, him.
And in those vile Amber eyes 
     pierce, penance, possess.

The quill I clutch, once triumph's gleaming prize
     Now crumbles to dust beneath the watchful skies.
"Mortal flesh to ash," fire hissed, "vengeance burns hotter”
     "Forever haunted by a relentless burning quagmire."
The owl reclaims his throne a specter of vengeance in his flight.
     And I, once the hunter now the hunted, enslaved.
In mirrored eyes madness seeps a corrosive weight upon my soul.
     Owl, fire, reflections of a tormented troll.

And in those cruel Amber eyes 
     Retribution, torment, abyss.
          And in those dire Amber eyes 
               Wraithful gaze 
                    Burning pyre 
                         shattered soul.

 
The fire fuses branded secrets 
a purging inferno cleansing my plight
the Eurasian Eagle Owl 
   with those Amber Eyes takes final flight.
        Leaving me alone with that foreboding blood moon...
…a nefarious succubus of the night.
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