Grand Shadow, or Not

I was given a

Gift...

Never knowing

From Whom...

...That dark

Night in Egypt,

Standing close

To a tomb...

A storm had begun!...

...It was felt

In the sky!...

...Old beggarly

Woman

Sold me

Horus's eye

On a locket I

Wore

Ever since that

Strange eve...

...I gazed at it's

Design

As a flash of light

Gleamed...

...Trapped in her

Gaze!...

Willing bank notes

From me,

She bestowed me

With this...

...Deadly mood

I won't shake...

...Grand Shadow, or

Not,

We must not be

Deceived!...

...There are

Scorpions climbing

Up out of the

Sand!...

I was given a

Gift...

"...Kindly hold out

Your hand

If you'd

Like to amass

Charity

From the G*ds..."

...Still see her

Lax frock...

...With the odds,

And her ends...

I've absorbed every

Memory

Through the gifts

She would send...

I was given a

Gift,

But the wager

Was grave!...

The night winds

Barked down

As I 

Gave it a whirl

And attempted

To conjure 

Her oyster

From my pearl...

...Omen

Blossoms

In bloom!...

And there's nearly

No room

For the living, and

Dead...

Though her will

Has been fed...

I was given a

Gift...

Never knowing

From Whom...

...That dark

Night in Egypt,

Standing close

To a tomb...

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