Wild Mercurial Wail

Wild Mercurial Wail
© Surazeus
2024 12 20

Alone by mountain lake in the vast woods, 
the young girl, with the most beautiful voice 
that anyone has ever heard on Earth, 
sings heart-enchanting melodies of faith 
from terrible suffering of bleak despair, 
transforming pain into ecstatic bliss. 

Howling with laughter as they run in woods 
with leaps and bounds around boulders and trees, 
grim wolf boy and his mountain gang of thieves 
surround young girl walking by starry lake, 
take turns ravishing her for several days, 
then leave her bleeding and bruised by the lake. 

Naked and trembling with terrible pain, 
Hyrkeis crawls slowly along the lake shore, 
long black hair tangled with bird bones and twigs, 
legs and thighs stained with blood of her despair, 
till she arrives at secret vine-veiled cave 
where she curls in wolf-skin blanket and weeps. 

When the full moon gleams gold above the lake, 
her mother appears from glimmer of mist, 
so Hyrkeis rises after months of rest 
and strides in glitter of Hyrkania Lake 
to baptize her wounded body in tears 
and cleanse poison of disgust from her heart. 

Filling small cart with walnuts, pears, and herbs, 
Hyrkeis travels three days to market town 
where Astraia keeps watch in the tall tower, 
and while she sells produce along the street 
she sees the wolf boy riding on large wagon, 
crowned as Town Guardian with scepter of death. 

Following crowd of cheering worshippers, 
who praise him for killing the tyrant king, 
Hyrkeis stares shocked as he ascends stairs 
and sits on judgment throne in open temple, 
so she falls to her knees, trembling in rage, 
then anguish of pain explodes in her heart. 

Welling up from deep abyss of her heart, 
terrible scream of rage rises from hell 
to emerge as beautiful melody 
in wild mercurial wail of aching sorrow 
that shocks the Wolf God and the silent crowd, 
who all listen in mute trance as she sings. 

Strange vision fills their song-enchanted eyes 
which rips mask of goodness and honesty 
from face of the Wolf God on throne of power, 
exposing crime he committed against her, 
so frenzied crowd tears his body apart 
as Hyrkeis walks away, tears on her cheeks.