Corvus and the Augur

from Devil's Blood in Her Tongue by Lepra

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<<In the distance stands a village, entrenched by a black shroud. As she approaches the town’s center, she is pulled aside by a soothsayer, her eyes weary from all she has seen and all she has foretold.>>

Ornithomancy
the language of the skies
cackling from the tree
So callously

The pestilence has come

She means us no harm
She croaks an alarm

She won’t forget your face
She tells you of your fate

Murder flying overhead
Scavengers of the dead
Divine forewarning
masses grieve the tragedy
Frozen ground and lifeless leaves

The augur and the crow

Did you have to be so cold?
It’s ominous, I know
The pestilence has come

A cacophony rings out
as the swarm grows ever hungry
Circling the weak below
Die! Die!

Poised to strike and feast
on the recently perished
Pecking clean their sockets
taunting as they croak

Thousands of bodies
The sacrificed piled in a mound
You strain to bury your dead
Your spade won’t pierce the ground

A death knell tolls
For every every tortured breath
With devil’s blood in her tongue
Tearing bone from rotten flesh

Harbingers of ruin
their talons clawing the earth
Ruthless as they scavenge
suffering is their mirth

Ornithomancer, when will it end?
The villagers trudge onward
Into eternal hell

the mourners prepare an offering
To appease the baleful banshee
The diviner raises her staff
Toward heaven’s four quarters

If you stay in the village
You will not survive
You must flee to the forest
If you wish to stay alive

Into the darkening wood!
Into the darkening wood!

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from Devil's Blood in Her Tongue, released August 25, 2023

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