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Standing alone, abandoned with ancient branches

Like threatening skeletal hands

Hungrily absorbed the souls of throne

Who died by hanging

Bleeding from the roots

Ugly visions, ghostly hanging nooses

Decomposing human effigies

Utterance of the foulest spirits

The living stone speaks

In ancient tongues

Sanguinary voices raise foreboding

As the tree is festered in another form

Human bones rooted in mould

Under the tremulant oak

Ugly visions, ghostly hanging nooses

Decomposing human effigies

Human bones rooted

Under the oak

Visceral attraction of the charnel ground

Enriching earth with blessed death

Ageless is breathing the haunting impelling

Still to absorb and devour

Ancient sacramental relics

Re-shapes in apparitions

Shattered bones floating

On the unearthly waters