Cast No Shadow

I woke up 

despite my head

to see the trail I blazed last night with the words I said

still she laid there in the charred and smoking wake of fears I fed



then she got up 

to look around

muttered words I’d never heard a human sound

then from her hair grew forty serpents

from her eyes a fiery shroud

from her mouth came forty voices and I heard them cry aloud...



I tried my best

to calm her down

there wasn’t any of her left but evil now

I cast a spell, a stone, a tranquilizing needle and a prayer

she grabbed me by the bones and shook my flesh and said I swear



the sun won’t cast no shadow anymore

the willows never weep

and the wind will never moan



now she is gone

I don’t know how

not even sure just where it is I am right now

there’s only darkness and the absence of any air that I can breath

I could’ve sworn that I was warned but how could anyone believe



the sun won’t cast no shadow anymore

the willows never weep

and the wind will never moan