Lilith

"Lilith, be thy name... The first, the flame, Unbent by man or vow— She walks the unclean brow." She came before the bone and dust, Unbowed to Adam's sacred thrust, No Eden chains nor serpent tongue Could bind her breath nor stop her song. Eve knelt—Lilith rose. Lilith! Be thy name engraved In flesh denied and angels flayed— Bride of none, and none obeyed! Sing, O Queen, from night’s domain, Woom of wrath, and crown of pain! She speaks in tongues the popes have banned, She drinks the blood of contraband— She bears no cross, nor veils her eye, She births the storm, she eats the sky. Daughters chant her lullabies. Lilith! Tear the veil from sin, Let serpent songs begin again! The altar cracks, the saints all grin— A throne of dusk, her reign ascends, The mother of the bitter end! "Lux feram, virgo Lilith In tenebris regnat anima…" (“I bear the light, virgin Lilith, In darkness reigns the soul…”) Amen... Lilith! Saint of desecrated flame, Your name the ash, your kiss the blame! No Genesis will cage your fame— Ascend, unbowed, unfear'd, unnamed… Her gospel burns in scarlet rain! "Et facta est Lilith… in aeternum.