By The Guppy
Date: 18 June 1999

crow

my love's a raven's wing tonight
all jet-black feathers devoid of flight
a snare drum skin streched beyond tight
a pit of of dark, devouring light

my love's a raven's talon now
a piercing claw clutched in tree bough
a ring representing a tarnished vow
a living force, but dead somehow

my love's a raven's thrashing tail
dipping into my entrails
a ghost ship sailing without sails
a deadman's hand; cold and pale

my love's a raven's seering screech
a sickly "caw" with infinite reach
a sandalled foot on a burning beach
a panicked pain that's known to each

my love's a raven's feast of gore
a gruesome mass of scabs and sores
the hoofbeats of the horsemen four
my love's a raven
nevermore