A chapter prelude from Through the Kindness of Ravens. Check it out!

Pesky Birds

Why in my head
Voices still rant and rave
Thought I’d silenced the patriarch hraefn
But blood-black eyes
Follow from the grave
Defying death’s limits, for me there’ll be no saving
For to save a soul, you need a soul to save
And I’ve none left for the taking
 
Pesky birds … pesky birds
I’ll make your blood-black eyes bleed
Pesky birds … pesky birds
For all unkindness to see
 
He leads the unkindness
They chatter from their perches in the canopy of trees
Of plans to follow and plots to forever torment me
But I have a plan myself
A dream of someday being free
One by one, plucked from my living hell
Add another trophy to my crow-cifix tree

Pesky birds … pesky birds
I’ll make your blood-black eyes bleed
Pesky birds … pesky birds
For all unkindness to see

Pesky birds … pesky birds
I’m in control, I’ll soon be free
Pesky birds … pesky birds
Fear the silence—its power is me