Brother Reaper

From shattered embers and fallen grieves

I sit amongst the hawthorn leaves.

And bittersweet reunion makes

of lovers lost and liar's takes.

So breathlessly lie I to keep

Under breath and under sleep.

Why did you die so long ago

When Reapers known not what Reapers sow?

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Brother, 'tis I, your Kin

The one who salvages souls to spin

Into tapestries of Merlin's gold

And things which Seers still left untold

Did you kiss her as you died,

The owner of my shattered pride?

As dawn still breaks upon the shoals

And ashes take the Reaper's tolls...
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Did she intoxicate you with Red Bordeaux?

Must you sleep still among her woe?

I rue the day mother birthed to you a life

Of things that God causes us strife!

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I forgive you as I bleed

upon the blacker stallion's steed

and plunge this dagger through the place

Where angels' blood runs angels' lace.