Vulpine Birth & Lament

Homemade Hymns
Sacrifice Pyre
twilight dims
dance into the fire
spinning and ashes
turning and embers
blackened timbers
otherworldly crashes
new purged supplicant
bow to the guards
come into the dream
acquiescent chant
following down light's last beam
run through forest
animal past
blood on teeth
fresh kills
civility ceased
night-slay thrills
I AM the Beast
Body hanging
on loosened skin
see the star
be my victim

crescent moon sickness
lust for change
self-shackled to wall
scarred and deranged
slanted window-light rises
orbiting devils in rocky guises
repugnant the full
mourn the rim
gravitational pull
cyclic, sound the maniacal din
of this dualistic duel
can humanity dampen
the primal lunar champion?