The Dove & The Crow Poem by Jouri Frazer

My minds consumed with thoughts of doom
To the one who exists as my bane
I’d have given the earth and all it’s worth
For a second of vengeance to claim
Though my heart told me nought he haunted my thoughts
Till darkness was all I could see
And I came to find that a sane less mind
Was all that was left of me

Back when today was five years away
My plans of revenge were complete
My body was drunk and my heart was sunk
From the pain of betrayal and deceit
Because I was dazed my memory’s hazed
And the details are kind of light
But the threat of regret would never have let
Me forget what I saw that night

With my mind in the bottle I walked full throttle
In circles through the icy floor
Till I came to a tree which oddly to me
I’d not seen in my path before
The tree was white and it’s aura was bright
And it shone on me directly
And in the branches of snow sat a dove and a crow
That is if I remember correctly

While the crow simply glared the dove sat and stared
With starry eyes as if ready to cry
Twas a sight to see a bird looking at me
With a tear falling out of it’s eye
Though it’s eyes were glazed I was hardly fazed
And I continued my trek through the thorn
But the path led me right back to the tree
That I’d visited earlier that morn

I was very confused for I was sure I had used
A different path than I’d taken before
But even odder to me still in the tree
Sat the two fowls from minutes of yore
Though the cold made me cringe my thoughts of revenge
Were the only thing I could think
Well…that and the wine that clouded my mind
And where I could get my next drink

Though the air was cold my heart was bold
And I imagined him with my girl
The woman whose love was as pure as a dove
And it sent my mind in a whirl
I’d have asked for her hand in the union so grand
Had she not been ripped from my arms
And it was now up to me to reap vengeance on he
Who had done to my heart so much harm

Twas a brutal track but I couldn’t turn back
My revenge wouldn’t be stopped by the cold
Though I had second thoughts I continued my trot
And I came to a fork in the road
I started to see what couldn’t possibly be
Because there in the path I would find
There in the snow sat the dove and the crow
I decided to lay off the wine

I called it a sign though I was drunk out my mind
And the crow signaled me to the right
It was dark down the path but so too was my wrath
Fear would not stop me that night
The piercing cold seemed to increase tenfold
But my pride would not let me stop
It was all that I had, even if I was mad
And I strode through every Ice drop

My heart strained from the wrenching pain
Of remembering the love unbound
I went numb in the breeze and felt my blood freeze
As I drowned in the darkness surround
The brutal cold chilled the base of my soul
And revenge was replaced with fear
And only then as the end drew in
Did everything soon become clear

Mans biggest test as I’m sure you’ve guessed
Is a woman with an aura of gold
What came between a love so serene
Was enough to make me give up my soul
And as I lay in the snow cursing the crow
I saw above my head
Just like my lost love away flew the dove
And with that I knew I was dead.