Witch Of Endor’s Double Sonnets
I.
I can't deny that I've known sorcery.
Men's words have cast their spells transforming me
Into a "witch" through verbal alchemy
Purporting to change essences of me.
I am a medium I will admit
But there's no shame or villainy in it.
How can it be an evil if I lend
A tongue to Heaven? Hypocrites
defend
The man who does the same when they declare
A "prophet" in their midst though they would tear
A woman into shreds who has the gift--
Unless of course a woman is more swift
In raising Samuel's ghost when trembling men
Must see it quick. It's right to
use her then.
II.
At men's request I raised up Samuel's ghost
That wore white veils across its sunken head
And mouth: "Saul and his sons will soon be dead!"
Saul blanched and swooned. Now done with Samuel's ghost,
Men scorned my charity. Not needed more,
I was a witch again good men abhor
And suffer not to live--though oddly men
Who have such powers are most godly men.
Men scorned my charity. Not needed more,
I was a witch again good men abhor
And suffer not to live--though oddly men
Who have such powers are most godly men.
I spat upon their terms, spat out my own,
And recognized no languages where few
And recognized no languages where few
Monopolize all prophets for themselves
In "piety" no doubt attempting to
Monopolize all profits for themselves.
I accept no words for me except my own.
In "piety" no doubt attempting to
Monopolize all profits for themselves.
I accept no words for me except my own.
