Tears Of The Wind

She dwelled in perennial night

of cold shadows in a forbidden forest,

a place where the black twisted oaks

were the cursed mutated creations

possessed by banished wizards and sorceresses,

They had practiced the dark arts,

tried to conquer the kingdom

under the rule of insane king,

he was the child of witch and dragon,

fierce and master of spells,

but had no tolerance for competition

so transformed any conjuring threats

into those hideous wooded forms.

 

Her heart had dreamed of freedom,

sadly being was trapped in that realm,

daughter of an enchantress mistress unto the monarch,

he rejected his offspring along with her mother.

 

They had lived in the hollow of a tree

while her parent sought a revenge

as a scorned lover.

 

Only the ruler sent his assassins

after his satyr seerer warned

the woman had been working on an incantation

to punish that monarch’s evil.

 

While the young girl was at this pool

that held the spirits of  midnight,

those masters of nightmares and ghosts,

she heard her mother screaming from the invaders,

too late discovering her death.

 

In her grief she cried out to the sky gods for help

the lords of eve phantoms heard her voice,

for a price she would have her vengeance.

 

Slowly she nodded with tears streaming down her face,

which were taken on the wind before her body was changed

into the moon’s glow, her soul now its fire,

suddenly rising to space where she watches in a new wispy essence.

 

From that gaze she stirred the thorns to turn into serpents

swiftly they slithered into the evil king’s castle,

quickly they killed him,

then light came to the suffering,

but forever the maiden must watch from her lunar spirit realm.

able to keep the wickedness in check

though eternally crying her charms to protect

over being eternally alone.