The Earth Bleeds Witchcraft

A step to the left and I’m surrounded by roses

Rays of the sun leak through the blood dripping thorns

The pain went unnoticed as I focused on foot prints

Which guided me directly to candles around her

The burning of incense layered smoke in a circle

Shifting and swaying in the breeze with her dress

The sun was eclipsed by the moon, a slight darkness

Fell over the landscape, silent motioning lips

Caught in a moment as if frozen in time

Flames of the candles grew large and then died

And out of the bushes ran a red rising fluid

It flowed into my wounds and filled me with life

I turned my attention to the vines of the earth

Surfacing roots as if serpents in birth

Awakened from dirt, taking a first breath

They shot into my stomach and out of my chest

She said, “this will be the place where you stay until death.

Giving me the life you have hated with each breath,

an eternity will pass before you wither away

For the blood of the earth, will keep you far from decaying ”

And each word felt sharp as my sight went dark

And my body hardly had the strength to blink

So I shut my eyes and let my thoughts subside

And now I think I’ve been asleep for some time