Come sit with me by the fire
Say nothing
Stare me
Together let’s climb atop the pyre
Our false selves
There me

Come walk with me through her canopy
Drapes of green
Small me
She swings her censer of fertility
Slow quiet push
Thrall me

Come kneel with me, bells toll the hour
Divine song
Sing me
Speak only the words of heaven’s power
Host and Cup
Feed me

Come slip through with me nightshade’s curtain
Four horsemen
Veil me
Stand fast: “No man dies alone,” Merton
Crush Serpent
Break me

Come run with me at dawn’s first light
Entombment
Roll me
I have run the race, fought the good fight
Vict’ry’s won
Scroll me