Crossroads
You leave this road behind you
Far enough that no one catches your trail
The only thing I have to find you
Is a telegram you dropped off in the mail
It Reads:
“She’s the only one
The only one I’ve ever loved
The one I left back at the crossroads
Keeper of many keys
She is the midnight queen
How I loved her so
She holds my heart in spades”
Your dark enchanting mistress
Sees the smoke and she feels the fires burn
And the spark of her holocaust
Lights the very rainbow trail for which you yearn
She’s the only one
The only one you’ve ever loved
The one you left back at the crossroads
Keeper of many keys
She is the midnight queen
How you loved her so
She holds your heart in spades
She is called by many names
Hecate, Oh Persephone, Innana, Ishtar,
And Scarlet Moon
Well go ahead!
Call her many names!
Maybe I’ll appear before you too
You leave this road behind you
As you make your way to find your holy grail
Scarlet! Scarlet! Scarlet!
If she’s the only one
The only one you ever loved
Why’d you leave her at the crossroads
Singing songs for stars
Dividing earthly skies
Shooting prose in arrows
From bows of promises you made
If I’m the only one,
The only one you’ve ever loved
Why’d you leave me at the crossroads
Tending karmic seeds
In the garden of your prophecies
While licking honey off the edges
Of razor blades
Scarlet! Scarlet! Scarlet!
Photography: Gypsypop and Logan Norton