As the phantom walks the path of the damned she found she couldn’t find the way
Living upon the scenes of a dream
The ethereal wisp
Akin to dew and mist
Had lost her soul (sol) along the road
All begun with her screams that signaled the breach
She reached for him to run outside
To gather a midwife (apep)
To bring the child life she gripped the pole
Strength of her hold had cracked her nails
The blood ran in trails of muted crimson
Then the midwife slid in
Attempting to coax the child out of its small prison (prism)
Finally it listened and was exposed
But with her black robe
The midwife ran out the door with the child in tow

How could this be
All I have suffered for a
Serpent to steal from me
It was under your eyes
Take no excuses
For the weakness you held
The weakness I’ll quell
I’ll gather these rags
To mend my form
And I’ll don these furs so that I may trudge through the night
Foolish I was
A fool was I
To place my trust in
Anyone but I

She left him as he wept and screamed and begged her not to head towards twilight
But she saw the light
Yea the light the brail she read as a trail would guide her to the child
But it would not ward her from the torture that
Each
Step
Would
Bring

Coming up on my life never knew the meaning of loss
Skin akin to evergreen trees in the frost
So I always cared for naught that’s how I gained a lot
And then I ended up swimming in the sauce
But along came Longinus with his holy spear
That pierced the shield that I’ve held up for years
The act which bore a fruit from a tree
But a black serpent came and stole it from me
Lament for the child for the child of the daylight
Repent rotted agent of moonlight
I know that the path that I’ve taken
Is one forged from my own hatred
I search as the rocks carve in my skin
I search as the frost bites in my limbs
I search but I’m turning up nothing
My god please give me something

She ran
She ran before I could stop her
The stronger of us two
She chased Apep who stole from her womb
And I let the theft entomb my feet when I saw the scene I couldn’t speak
I screamed
In pain
Or was it shame
No matter the name this loss still remains the same
Why did we ever venture from my warm sands
To her
Dark
Cold
Dead
Wastelands
I know her home lay in the north
But the long trek put stress on her heart
We had to stop in a barn that’s when the breach had begun
With no respite in sight had to make do with the crude tools
But it was doomed to be futile
Apep had won he stole our

Sunlight
She’s searching for some light
Anything to show that the path holds true
To fend off the darkness seeping through
Heart
Is
Beating
As fear and truth weigh her down
Knots in her stomach as she falls to the ground
Pain is growing from below
Blood down her thighs
Realize afterbirth is inside
Pulled is out
She tugged it out
And through the shrieks
Cut deafening truth
Oh she knew
Oh she knew it now
That cord of life
Was a hangman’s noose

This light was never alive
This light (this lie) was never alive
This womb screams out
This womb screams out
This light was never alive
This light was never alive
This womb
Screams
(out)