The Woodwoman

Resting by my fire. Looking deep into it's flames

My mind must have been somewhere else

Far beyond these plains

I am suddenly aware of a pair of eyes staring at me

I turn around and behold the most ugly thing I have seen

The woman standing in the glade like a shadow in the night

Points her wretched finger at me with a wretched smile

And she asks me in a voice that sounds as if it's been so long

since she spoke, if I seek magic then I should come along

I'm but a man. Mortal, a man

But she leaves no footprints in the snow

Still I follow on to where she is going

For she has promised me magic if I follow on

She takes me to a part of these woods few have ever seen

Where the sun surely won't reach

Still the ground ominously gleams

She says she's seen me coming and that she knows where I'll go

But before I leave she says there is this one thing I should know

She offers me the ability to take a fatal wound

Every cut by sword or spear will be absorbed by her tree-womb

The magic will remain until it's time for me to part with this mortal world

And all she'll claim is my young heart

I'm but a man. Mortal, a man

And I'll need all the help that I can get

So I give my heart to the woman of the dark

With or without it...my life is not over yet

Wing of bat and lizard's eye

Dust of a star fallen from the sky

Tears of a virgin, *** of a god

Thirteen drops of an infant's blood

A twist of a cat's spit and oil of the moon

Stir for a while and very soon

A salve to be applied upon the chest

close to where the heart beats strong

No pains will occur when her hand is pushed into my flesh

She'll slowly draw my living heart out of my open chest

She'll place my heart in the pit of the snake and behold the years go by

Hers to keep from the moment when the time has come for me to die

By a lake in an open part of the Eternal Woods

Noon