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///// Nightdwellers 'Beginning Line' Challenge (October 1st) ///// Since it is the month of the old Hallowe’en malarkey I thought this beginning line quite apt to start something spooky, freaky, frightening or mysterious… ‘A GOATS HEAD EFFIGY HANGS IN THE SHADOWS’…Tag it #nightdwellers #beginningline. Go crazy ;) http://www.facebook.com/groups/NightdwellersWrites/
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Bewitch

A goats head effigy hangs in the shadows

The all seeing eye rolls back into white

A dead man twitches in the gallows

In stop frame motion the moon enters night

Candles burn while blood begins to flow

Each drip a story of something you shouldn’t know

The crystals sway and you’re urged to drink

From a goblet of history your mind begins to kink

Candles and seduction, sex and destruction

As the world gives way to a darker instruction

Books and bells, hex’s and spells

Puppets on fingers to do as I tell

To control

To Possess

A darker life to confess

Black cat bone

Your thoughts are not your own

A darker road to roam

As incantations stain your skin

You are now ready. To. Do. My. Bidding...

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