A Childe Cries
By Staff Writer: Paganus Greybeard
Pain is Real.
Despair is Real.
Innocence is Lost.
Faith is Shattered.
Hope is Destroyed.
Somewhere this Day
Somewhere this Night
A Childe Cries.
A Jury has Spoken.
Verdict has been Reached.
The Accused this Day
Walks Free
Somewhere this Day
Somewhere this Night
A Childe Cries.
Justice is not Real anymore.
Corruption Rules the Land.
‘Civilization’ is the Game we play
We play it very well
So well that
We kill in places we cannot even name
We steal from everyone everywhere
Weapons are built for ‘Defense Only’
Just waiting for an attack to be used
and bodies to be counted
Evidence is Ignored.
Testimony is Twisted and Torn Apart.
Truth is the other side’s Lies.
Crime is not a Crime anymore
it is something else
something else that has no name
something else that the Lady with the Scales
Still knows and understands
Something of the Darkness
From the Darkness
Painfully Real
so much so that
Somewhere this Day
Somewhere this Night
A Childe Cries.
The Jury has Spoken
The Accused has walked Free
‘Civilization’ has spoken
So too then will I
I am the Paganus
After this ‘Verdict’
and the resultant intense disgust I am feeling
feeling as I sit here and keyboard down these words
is that if that is what ‘Civilized’ is and means
then I am NOT ‘Civilized’.
I am the Paganus.
I am - as the name first meant - the ‘Common Man’.
I am also Heathen - as from the Heaths.
I am the ‘Solitary Learner’.
I am the ‘BardicMagus’.
I am disgusted and utterly and deeply insulted and offended that
the Jury let the Accused walk Free.
I am disapointed in the Courts that after all was done
nothing was done.
This is NOT a truly ‘Civilized’ Verdict.
The Ancient ‘original’ Pagans would not have accepted this.
The Ancient ‘original’ Druids - whomever they really were -
most decidedly would not have accepted this.
The Ancient ‘original’ Witches - or Wiccae - most certainly would not
have accepted this.
But here we sit - as a ‘Civilized’ Society - and we accept this.
We - accept - this….
We even let it happen.
We let it happen - so the accusations purport - repeatedly.
WE - Let - It - Happen…..
Would the Pagans - of years long gone - have permitted this?
Would the Druids - of whatever time and space - have permited this?
Would the Wiccae - of days ancient and nights forgotten - have permitted
this?
WE - this ‘Civilized’ society - let these ‘Crimes’ - or so they have been
accused to be - happen.
Would the Ancients have let these ‘Crimes’ happen?
WE did…..
The ‘Media’ came
the “Media’ reported and covered the story
as well as it could be reported and covered
but as I sit here
I cannot help but wonder
what would the Medea think of this
Sorceress to Jason of the Argo
as Euripides had written
so many eons long ago
“….O Haggard Queen! To Athens dost thou guide
thy glowing chariot … where Peace and Justice
dwell for evermore?…”
Perverts can rejoice.
The Accused was found Not Guilty.
The Paganus does NOT rejoice.
The Accused was found Not Guilty.
This is not a good day to be a Childe.
The Jury has Spoken.
The Accused has been set free.
Pain is Real.
Despair is Real.
Innocence is Lost.
Faith is Shattered.
Hope is Destroyed.
Somewhere this Day -
Somewhere this Night -
A Childe Cries.
A Jury has Spoken.
A Verdict has been Reached.
The Accused this Day -
Walks Free.
Somewhere this Day -
Somewhere this Night -
A Childe Cries.
Somewhere this Day -
Somewhere this Night -
A Childe Cries…..