Serenity

Mother of Darkness and Light
Artemia, Selene, Hecate
Godess of the three paths
Grant me Power of Water to Accept the things I cannot change
Allow me Power of Fire to Change the things I can and must
Lend me Power of Air to Know what to change and when to hold
and Power of Earth to Stay upon this path
Thy will be done
Let it be

I sheltered too long in the rickety edifice and made my plans
coming forth, it is a new day and my schemes are but leaves
in the autumn wind.

I come bearing not only the scars of battle, and loss,
for that which festers within,
there lies the demon.

Yet the Beast within, also, is a child of the Mother of Shadows,
it lies undead in a shallow, shallow grave.
I am at peace, make no stirring, and harm no-one,
lest the Beast awake. It is a thing of fear, from it there is no hiding,
no fleeing, no shield.

Yet while it ruled, a rage upon it,
and no resistance to gainsay or forestall it,
or moderate it's ways, a destroyer bent upon destruction,
even of itself. I allowed it loose leash, and then, of its own,
it broke free, and unable to contain the storm or turn the blade,
I sat, tharn and lost, within the shell. All that was left.

Now, there lies the Beast, at rest, at last,
it is but sleeping and it's consequences yet my undoing.
The Beast has taken the plunder and fled,
leaving me, the bloody handed accomplice, and now it sleeps.

Know ye the Beast? - for it is kindred.
Answer ye for the Beast?
Call upon the Great Mother to take hand with her children, thee and the Beast.
Be at peace, wake not thy sibling twin.