Cousins
 

Listen

I heard them in the night
those spoke of by my elders
there is no charm to ward them
nor spell to banish them
they are from the dawn of time
and live in the twilight of forever.
"Before wars (they say)
    in the dark before dawn
        they visit,
            soul eaters
                 balence tenders
                      oddsmakers
                        wishgivers
                            ghostlovers
                                nightmares
they hunt their prey
                                                    man
                                       "They see your hearts desire
                                       whisper the path
                                       deals they make-master planing
                                       deals only they win
                                       the howls of their mounts
                                       are the cries of souls they have taken
at the fiveways they wait
soon they come
humans
disilliusioned to society
candle carring, robed
They choartle, they spring
                                        every figure now hunchbacked
                                slant-eyed mounts glare at their neighbors
                        suspicious, paranoid, jealous,
the circle is broken                                                                            the feeders fed
 

            I need to know                            you see us?
            what you are                             you see, you be
            explain

     like chared straw dolls
     eyes live coals
     clothes a mismash of times
     their mounts abandoned
     they circle
In the twilight we came
we are those who give what is desired
but for payment                                                     Yes payment!
the circle bands to cliqucs
cliqucs to battlestations
we becomes I
helpers syopants
the unity/integrety collapses
like bushes round a spring
they cluster to me
  why?                                       how?
you be, therefore you see

open your eyes

I came to deal with you
I came to ask a bargin                                                                                                                 blink blink coal eyes
I want to know
with a touch
with a word
Remember





arid winds
they take them in sprials to the skies

Babylon