Can’t hear my stories over the death omens

Missed them bringing back Banshee Bones

But when I stooped to gather holy stones

To make a marker for the latest martyr taking the journey home

Accidentally brushed a banshee’s comb 

All night beneath my window she sat, a wailing crone 

Like a drowning cat, her keening drone

Seeming to say “Your life is not your own.”

Though I am young, I am become old,

You go to that black carriage when told.

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