Song of the Watcher
Thought and Memory
always watching,
waiting, circling,
ready to report back
as I sit upon
my childhood throne;
much smaller now,
overgrown
as I have grown
looking out to sea
while the wind whistles
across the castle ramparts.
The one-eyed man
told the log lady
to go into the heart
of the forest
where the magician
would be waiting.
He had said
he would wait
until dawn.
I asked the
one-eyed man
what the magician
had to tell me
from his heart,
in the forest
amongst the old trees
with bark as thick
as my fist
and hollow gateways
descending into
the Underworld.
“The hanged man
will tell you
all he knows,
and will gift you
the flower from
which the seed
of Aeon plants the
child Horace
to birth
the flight of the Phoenix;
breaking out of the golden
egg in its primal scream,
just as you,
the Queen of Wands,
take your rightful place
on your fire throne.”
This much
I see with my
blind eye:
you knew
each other
before.
So it is.