Strzyga

When Ivan the Terrible was born before he was even two They said of teeth he had two Tatars said with one he will devour us With other he will devour you When child is born with two sets of teeth their soul Supposedly will be black as coal They will have more than one soul And when killed they will become creature no one can control Only one soul from the body will flow Second will stay and monster whose eyes can glow That can move faster than wind will blow Will be born and her appetite for human flesh will grow She can only be killed by removing head and the heart And burying them from rest of the body far apart But I believe real strzyga as it we Poles call is has good heart Only it is destructive because from people it’s forced to live apart It is said Strzyga can turn into giant owl And anything from monster to waterfowl She is very dangerous when on the prowl She is smart like a smartest human but she can kill with just a howl I imagine her as woman with snake tail where legs should be and wings Someone who as beautifully as nightingale sings In male form I imagine dragon’s king of kings With triangular seven heads of snake he also has wings What makes him sublime? He is master of time And beyond time And master of divine and destiny with one rhyme As you see her or him coming out of the mist You see something that is not supposed to exist But it is not increasable, absolute value of not exist The one beyond consciousness yet it does exist