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Sarkless Kitty's Weeping

from Unclean Rituals by Hesper Payne

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An old Yorkshire folk tale, the most recent christian version is quite gentrified and has a happy ending (a warning against extra marital sex, the lovers learn a lesson and are reunited in heaven) however the tale goes back further and there was a version being told when the Romans came North. The older versions are darker, bloodier and don't end well for those involved. There is a certain similarity to the Far Eastern ghost stories that really appealed (Ring, Grudge and The Eye books/films), the idea of a hungry, empty ghost and the wrath of the unborn spreading out and infecting all it touches with a corrupting hatred. The character of Kitty also reminded us of someone we knew giving it a bitter personal edge. Incidentally a sark was a type of old undergarment and sarkless meant naked.

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the sky was the colour of dead swans wings
the placid dove roused to violence by the lashing winds
hills bruised with heather tortured by relentless rain
a lone weeping figure, naked save for shroud of pain

my misery
will out last the dulcet glow of the sun
lost in abandonment
the ghost consumed by evrything that has failed to be

I told the bitch I loved her
held her face in hand
told her I would never leave
gossemer promises so perfect yet so fragile
deftly spun soon torn apart by the winds of deciet

old aggie saw him riding
look of purpose on his face
hard upon the richmond road
best get yourself in doors girl
an ill wind chills my bones
and I dont think hes coming home

having taken his fill of her flesh
my sire fled
leaving the weeping whore soiled and bereft
not before his seed had taken route and I came to be
over come with shame
she fled to the river to abort herself clean

sarkless she stands in the murky water
gutting her womb with whatever bloody hands can find
roses and tears blossom on pale cold skin
to late she acknoledges
the storm bearing down upon her pretty head
rain soaked all hope lost she lets her lungs fill with silt and weeds

here in my cold wet birth grave
I was born and shall haunt
imprisoned in the swaddling flesh
of my mothers womb

forever I haunt this place with my curse
trapped in the roting womb of this wretched whore
forever unborn the pain corrupts both flesh and mind
my hatred contaminates the soil
the bitches weeping will never cease
I will gift her untold horror for the torment she bestowed on me
unbirth eternal imprisoned in her flesh forced to share the lords disdain
so I invest my pain to tear the earth apart
my rage will blacken the soil and curse the purest heart
and we shall remain as one till sun is long dead and gone
wandering the blackened earth beneath a starless sky forever more

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from Unclean Rituals, released July 1, 2010

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Hesper Payne Liège, Belgium

Doomed Heavy Metal inspired by the myths and landscape of North East England. Formed in 2004 and not dead yet.

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