Poetry

I am Raven
I live in the Heart of the Forest
A Little Hut the only Shelter I Need
An Hermitage Shared with a Cat
And the Living Things in this Land
I Am Raven
My Name is Freedom
I Turn My Face to the Sky
Laughing out Loud
Dancing in the Moonlight
I Give My Devotion to Tree and Bark
Earth and Stars and all Life around me
To Creatures of the Dark
To Troll and Fairy
And the Mysteries of the Universe

I am Raven
I Belong to No One
That is My Inexcusable Crime
People's God Means Nothing to Me
Their Zealotry Disgusts Me
I Am a Free Woman
No Man Commands Me
I will Be Punished for My Solitude
My Long Hair
My Wild Spirit
My Pride and Independence
They Want Me Punished
For My Critical Mind
My Love of Nature
Even for My Cat

I Can hear them Rampaging
Through Bush and Shrub
Trampling Fragile Blossoms
And Everything in their Way
Destroyer of Civilizations
Book Burners, Barbarians,
Bringer of Dark Ages
Slayers of Everything Good and Decent
Undisturbed by Reason or Conscience,
Guided by Blind Faith
Driven By Fear and Fury
Breeding Intolerance and Hate
If they Have Such a Desire
To Be With Their God
Why Don’t They Go First?

I Am Raven
I Am Accused of Witchcraft
I Rotted Their Crops
I Ate their Children
I Took Their Men in Their Dreams
I Murdered Their Animals
With a Single Glance
My Evil Eye is Widely Feared!
If I Could Send Dark Spirits to Haunt Them
If I could Influence the Elements
And Call Lightning From the Skies
To Destroy Them
Wipe Them All Out
I Would Have Already Done So Long Ago!

I am Raven and I Will Die Tonight
But My Spirit Will Live On
My Ideas Will Survive
There Will Be Others
Searching for the Philosophers Stone
For Compassion and True Freedom
The Holy Oak Will Die With Me
In Her Hot Fire I Will Burn
We Will Unite
Our Ashes Will Blend
Our Souls Will Raise Together
As We Become One With the Earth
Giving Back What We Took in Order to Live

We Will Return Home