Before the Rainbow

Lucifer’s Priestess

54 Lucifer’s Priestess To sit, talk, drink, and laugh The barometre of happiness – misleading? How wrong! In the midst of woes That could bend iron bars Woes that led others to An early grave – suicide –yes I ate And talked, drank, laughed, And even danced. But the unseen burden Gored at the core Leaving me frightened, sick, Terribly anxious.Yet The days rolled on With me wearing a smiling mask. And so the meaning of Viciousness, a part of it Somehow, I now understand. For no reason other than Because I have the power I can do whatever To another of God’s creatures. Servant of Gahanna To plant your bloody curse On me – an innocent son, Stealing the best years of my life: In a daze I lived, for naught 55 But the want of my sweat, My hard earned money. How true the words of the Master? You and your Hellish legion battered Mind and body, the soul Beyond your ugly reach. To think how once I revered you, Loved you like a very mother And respected you more than your very own Brood, my reward a bloody encounter with Your hellish crew by day and night. The cross won: The Christ, the Virgin, Saints Joseph, Jude, Pio, Michael the Archangel And so forward I forged Abandoned by friends misleadingly Traumatized by my supposedly newfound Bushfaller mentality even as My life on the line hung as I tangoed with death; What man can do to man! But Mary, You the Undoer of knots, Mother you freed me and set To work in the Master’s vineyard; Holy indeed is His name, and You Forever shall be called Blessed. ...