The Pharaoh Sails to Orion
‘Get away from me!
Take heed to thyself and see my face no more!
For in the day Thou see my face
Thou shalt die!’
– Exodus 10:28
A constellation of divine
architecture built on Earth
A holy harbour – Orion
Nautical ascension to the firmament.
Ship-shaped barrows open
my heart to the wisdom of this land
Sailing with the Serpent Chimera
of a fiendish sandman.
The Unicorn arrives with the westwind
to dream His funeral
‘Thou art born for Horus dwells in Thee.’
Slumbering with the ebb
and the flow of this foaming tomb
‘Thou art born for Seteh dwells in Thee.’
Reveal your face to me
and guide me through the Stygian fields
Enthral my soul to Sepedet’s
beams to serve Your will
Sailing on the distant seas
from darkness to deliverance
Tales like the ocean written to the Draco’s glance.
Ruling with the scythe of death
you tear our philosophies apart
An ancient starwalk
to merge into the stars.
‘Open thy veins for my venom
Kiss the cobras with thy twisted tongue
So shalt thou join the empyrean circus
Where beggars mourn
and seraphs dance
In this twilight cathedral
Shall I wed thee,
O Bride of the Netherworld.’
Join my soul the Hunter in the sky.
