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Now is the eve of winter,

of Samhain

When we`ll honour the Goddess

As Darkness holds sway

The Ancestors call

from beyond the veil

And we set our feet

On a new shining trail



Praise her from sunset

into the dawn

As the Old year ends

And a new one is drawn

Voices of the dead

will answer our fears

And sing

as we dance

in the mist with our peers



Death to death

and life to life

Form to form

on the edge of the night

We call

as we move

please answer our plight



Womb to tomb

and birth to birth

Warmth of the flames

upon the hearth

We are held

in the arms

of the earth



As we welcome the night

Leading to re-birth

Oh Lady of Darkness

Come, hear our plight

Our voices, our prayers,

Our spirits, our hearts

Togather as one,

We greet the new year

Show us the way

As we greet the new day



© Masque

I stare at the pigeons

and remember the crows

cawing their way through

an intensity of pain and hope



My head rests against it,

this cold fragile windowpane

glass and steel, reflecting emptiness

errant thoughts leading to damnation



The wind howls my name,

flickers of light traverse

a sphere of joyless apathy.

Why has it come to this again?



The road winds on, away from me

I simply cannot see what`s there

the nettles and the steep inclines,

the shadows drowning everything



Here I stand, against the thunder

head low, eyes adrift, lips parted,

white hands wide, palms open -

waiting... waiting... for the inevitable



© Masque