"Drift in Winter's eyes"
The steady black crow cries
"Take your leave!
No good will it achieve.1
Your mission is a daunting task
It is better not to ask
For the answers you do seek
Are buried like the frozen creek2
The death of so long ago
You are required to forego
For she is gone and you are here
Even though you do fear3
Drift away drift away
For no longer may you stay
Leave now this bloody bank
Or winter's eyes will play a prank4
Dig not up the shallow grave
It is time now to behave
Go back from whence you came
And leave your deadest dame"5
With that the black bird took the sky
Not waiting for the man to die
For there the man stood both night and day
Until on the snow he did lay6
There beside his long dead bride
From his pain he did hide
Until he could finally drift
And give his sweetheart his last gift
Author notes
Please don't compare this to Poe's "Raven". It was not meant to have any connection what so ever and I hadn't even read it until after I wrote this.
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