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Was I a monk or mystic? Did I meet You?
Was I a cunning man or woman? Did I know You?
Was I a heretic or witch who dared to greet You?
And for me, to put the holy Church below You?

There's a cross on the tree-lined skyline
I'm sipping coffee as I watch the window glass
On the sidewalk, there's my holy King
Inside me, distant church bells ring
Mournful, as they're calling me to Mass
There's a cross--I don't see the steeple
In the poignant dusk I feel a pang of loss
You're taller than a man could be--
Your antlers, like an ancient tree
Branch out and cover up the distant cross

On the roads or fields, would You chase me?
For forgotten bonds, You came to hunt me
In my fear and passion, You embrace me
And I thrill to feel how much You want me

I feel You when the Pagans start their drumming
We writhe and chant beside the leaping flames
The shadows flicker smoky gold
You're dancing, primal deep and old
My Horned One calls His people by our Names
I'm here to dance the music that You taught me
I'm here to show Your people where You tread
Reweaving Worlds they forced apart
This Circle breathes with You its Heart
A place for both the living and the dead

In the barrow dark You call my name
And glitter in the weaver's frame
He served You with ancestral dreams
She chanted by the moonlit streams
Annwfn's Child, call me home
My stories sleep in a sealed tome
And me, I know for all my days
I'll give the Faery King my praise!

Between the beats of Time I feel You breathing
And while I live, my soul is in Your care
The Lord of song and poetry
The Soul of wind and rain and sea
And when I die, I know You'll guide me there
You sparkle like a dream I half remember
I wonder if I've met You here before
You blossom red, my Winter Rose
Beneath all words, my spirit knows
And so I turn to follow You once more.

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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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