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On the floor by Your chair in Your feasting Hall
Black marble burns cold on my knees
Faerie's King, bright as moonlight, He rules us all
And owns me, and everyone sees

I'm enthralled
At Your altar
Heart burning hollow for Cauldrons I swallow
I've crawled
Halting collared
Bleeding sharp as You're carving Your Name on my heart

I'm tired of hiding that Gwyn is my Master
I'm sick of pretending there's nothing obscene
Disguising my blushes and crushing my lust
Scared to death other pagans will judge me unclean
But You blinded the eye which watched others in terror
Help me surrender, Red Rose of Delight!
Burning with Beauty too brilliant to bear
You pierce me with thorns and I groan when they bite

Flinty black whorls of ink fill my chill bare skin
I wonder at stories they tell
You yank on my chain with a sharp fae grin
Enraptured, I'm under Your spell

West Wind
What madness You kindle!
Torture me tenderly--make me surrender!
As drums
Overcome me, I crumble
The warnings all shorn for the sound of Your Horn

I'm sick of pretending the sky might be empty
The Otherworld grabbed me, as real as the stones
I pray to the Hunter who breathes down my neck
For I feel His drums in my heart and my bones
My skeptical doubt You have slain with Your dagger
You smiled and gathered me close: "It's ok.
I'll teach you to Know with a child's sweet trust--
Feel humankind's Reason flow gushing away."

For the bird in my chest
There's a cage of gold
I've never confessed
To the chain You hold
Desire, Delight
I'm a sacred thrall
With Master tonight
At His Faery Ball

"Don't tell them until you can own without shame
Your submission and worship look almost the same.
Don't fret--I will teach you to honor My Name!"

Devotion pours out like my blood from Your Cauldron
I trust You to ruin me, Lord of my song
Forgiving my heart when it trembles with fear
But I'm safe at Your feet and it's here I belong
And You smile, and melt me in sweet shameless rapture
Like veils of moonlight, Your hair 'round me falls
Teach me to honor my heart and my skin
For deeply they know when Your Otherworld calls

And me, I am Thorn, whom the Mist King enthralls.

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from After My Vows (Love Songs from a New Godspouse), released March 2, 2021

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Thornsilver Hollysong Los Angeles, California

Thorn is a Brythonic & Minoan Polytheist with Wiccan roots. He writes about gender, witchcraft, and other gothy fantastical things. Some of his songs are set in the world of his stories, while others tell of his own experiences as a gay nonbinary trans man and a witch devoted to Gwyn ap Nudd.

He's also been known as Rain and Dusk. ... more

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