☽Oh how the raven laughs at me so Its eyes like drops from an ink well
Its feathers like obsidian tainted by oil
Look at him laughing, laughing away
Like he told me a joke and clueless I remain.
He caws at me and tells me to fly
Spreading his wings to show me how easy it is
Liar, fool, pest of a beast
Doesn't he know I'm stuck here?
Always stuck here, earthbound, the stars are never mine
I'm a shadow of a shadow
Maybe I'm a dream soon to fade
But my little dove wont let me.
Longing consumes me, fills me with wonder
Questions burn deep in my mind
Wanderlust eats away at me, a ravenous beast.
Perhaps I shall go mad in time
And maybe someday I will try to fly
Scale the highest trees, the tallest mountains
And with wind in my pelt, moonlight in my eyes, I will fly
But my little dove wont let me.
I roam the deepest swamp lands and commune
Ever in prayer, ever seeking the souls of those long gone
They sing to me in the night, they call for me to show them home
Yet this raven, how he mocks me even now
Even in my most sacred of moments
My most deepest refrain
How he yells that we are brothers
That I've forgotten how to caw
Maybe we are, maybe I have
Maybe he wants to watch me jump from a tree so he can eat my corpse
But my little dove wont let him.
The world is askew, I see the horizon
Between this world and the next, on the borders I walk
Leading the ghosts to their final rest
My fellow Kin, so alive, are an endless sea and I cannot even swim
Their communion confuses me, their lives are passing shadows.
I'll roam the swamp on dark hooves
I'll commune with the earth as it whispers to my soul
Maybe I will become the darkness, the deep
A Raven at Night
But my little dove wont allow it.
Rooted to the earth, she keeps me grounded
In her I see the sunrise
In the world and all its night, her flame burns brightly
Her love is the call that summons me from swampsheart.
Let the Raven yell for me to come
Let him scream my name
To her I will return evermore
By her side I shall remain.☾