The Dire Mistress

the dire mistress assails she pursues a mans carmine sustenance becalm her with reality with reason in order to pacify her passion If in need desperately become anointed, seek inner peace join willingly with the angel belong and recite with her during her reaping song hovering voraciously over the carnage a sliver haired woman does appear she is caped in gracing darkness emitting reverential fear a wanderer stands alone unmoved after observing this slaughter he stands upon a vast battlefield located in the valley of desertion the death angel now recites in finality she will impose the wanderer blankly listens accepting his sentence with repose before termination the wanderer is permitted a last request in hapless agony he asked his wife to be spared “Flee” “my willowy wife” “Become expedient” “Alter thy motion” “seek the safe albatross” “in tranquil, translucent flight” Long vibrant moments the dire mistress performs her duty O, how regretfully the moan of her singing scythe Last being perished the mistress soon vanished Valkyries ferried souls away leaving that undulating plain of silence The willowy wife? She was portioned by flight her winged sprouts sultrily she laughs avoiding the plight