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The Hawk And The Cross

from Mysteries Of The Pyramids by Josh Haden

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The Hawk And The Cross

Sun shines down
On an ancient village.

The citizenry
Go about their business.

Atop a cross,
A hawk

With wingspan seven cubits wide
And the head of a bennu bird
Devours a crow alive.

Trapped underneath its talons
The crow makes no sound

As its flesh is ripped away
And its feathers fall to the ground.

Several other crows
And even a finch-lark

With a great cacophony
Of screams and cries

Attempt to attack the hawk
They get close but never make contact.

The citizenry below
With single-minded determination
Ignore the distraction above.

The great hawk unafraid
Spreads its wings architrave

And takes flight
Bringing along its now-dead prey within its claws.

Ten crows chase after it
Their gestures threatening violence still-futile.

The hawk flies West
In a lumbering gait

Then crosses back
North towards the mountains

Flying ever higher
Towards the sun.

The higher it gets
The more the crows drift away

Until the hawk is almost indiscernible
Against the sky

And three crows
Become two

The last crow
Gives up and flies away to the East

And the hawk
With wingspan seven cubits wide
And the head of a bennu bird

Disappears on the other side of the horizon.

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from Mysteries Of The Pyramids, released May 18, 2015
Josh Haden - vocals, bass

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I play bass and sing in a band called Spain. www.spaintheband.com

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