Companion. art by the author
Two warm hearts broken
Trying to get back the beat
Of what was left of mine
Now it’s whole
Bigger and blacker
With women's sweet blood
With women's sad smiles
The year is fading
False company gone
True loneliness soars
The fiery strength
The scented soil
The year is fading
God looked and smiled at me
With His terrible all-loving eyes
I vowed in bliss to his feet
And let my mind force me to forget
The year is fading
Then I walked the worldly road
Embraced and beheld the great work
Bane the wight, inflamed the hex
Waked the dragon
Merged the true wolf
The year is fading
The entheogen exhausted
Adrift the shore came
The new lands demanded
Come the inner way
The year is fading
Now the path is calling
Wanderlust twitches and roars
Bid farewell to Heartland
The cold far north approaches
The year is fading
And yet it’s not gone.
