Bonefire

The bonefires burn tonight
Northern fires shall burn tonight
Rise, the voyage wings expire
Evil eyes can only spy
The bonefire

As the poison drains away
Shall the shadows be their prey
Breeding lies inside their eyes
Frozen minds, the night disguised
The bonefire

Broken fears expelled with haste
Reaching flames, demonic taste
Deadly night can only fear
The bonefire

As the poison drains away
Shall the shadows be their prey
Breeding lies inside their eyes
Frozen minds, the night disguised
The bonefire

The wanderer walks
As the worker waits
The indecisive watch growing grey and shrunken
The bonefire burns alone in the night

Shield to the watchers and sword to the shades
The comforter crawls in fading light
A betraying voice calling
Frail and poisoned

This lone fire dies a little more each night
Faith of the watchers and ghost to the shades
Bones and tissue, slick with grease
Wrenched and twisted, a body’s peace
Sick, the stench, this reek. Defile
Blackened, stinking

This corpse God-pile
The vapours roll as the watcher waits
The revenant stand beyond, grey and waiting
The bonefires burn tonight