Black Pearl Eye of Raven
Rooftop gargoyle
Stone and statue stiff
Black pearl, eye of the raven
Watching on high, from where he sits
A dark sentinel against the moonlight
His gaze upon me never quits
At the dawn he has gone
But at twilight the corvid calls
CAW! CAW!
To warn the world
The harbinger, my confessor
Of the misdeeds I refuse to admit
Each night a shadow of my lost conscious
My superficial walls from me he does strip
One by one the eyes upon begin to stare
Til madness fills me
And not another hour of darkness can I bare
I bleed my heart open to the authority
And the black demon laughs and laughs
And flaps his wings
To seek the next of his victims
Hooded villians roaming free
Preying pleasurably upon the weak
Messenger of black summoned through affiction
Brings them to their knees
Thus, the burden of sins upon their backs
Is his calling card to leave
Copyright © Michael Smith | Year Posted 2011
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