Love Poem: Court the Raven Never More
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Written by: Shane Solomon

Court the Raven Never More

Court the Raven, count the birds
Seven there is, flying above

She waited for my soul, but got my body
I challenged her, to sleep herself

While the dead air, whipped her hair
I brushed back strands of time behind her ear

When she awoke, pistol in hand
Counting graves, adding sins

Her eyes were black like a death,
Her body was long, just like Hell

Seven there is flying above
Checking for the ones whose time has come

I find her beautiful, what is your name?
Tell me why your fingertips are laced with ice

Who are the people that walk behind you?
Just those that trade life after

The mist has crept back towards her
Seeking that she cometh apocalyptic now

Bang! Bang! there goes her pistol
Sounding the ponies of avalon

A million years I watched her walk
Never smiling, just watching like me

The ones who tried to win her heart
So bad, they wished to die

God sentenced her this inheritance
Unbiased to Heaven or Hell

Although she gains a passage to both
Dragging souls from mortals

And leaving their shells
In a casket closed

When the living will be a lie,
The sweetest secret she shared with me

When the dead be of truth,
My black bride came a walkin' to me

I carried her pass a threshold
Where the ancestors murmur and grieve

The jagged bones and skeletons
All began to drip dusty tears, on a hearts sleeve

Court the Raven, for that be her name
The Reapers daughter, I fell in love

Her love took me as high as the Seven birds flown
Her sensuality grasped my breath a deadly

She puckered on my cheek
A death without a name

And it came unseen
Like a midnight entertwining to bewitching

Shot down by her hand
Turned down by her hand in marriage

Just another lover without a mate
Watch black Ravens, interpretation of a love game