The Fierce Little Thing And Her Five Mates
The counter-verse, the holder’s shield:
Five gifts to ground what power yields
Salt for truth, and ash for wrong,
Wind for change, and bone for bond;
A name once kept, at last set free
Thus caged fire learns to breathe.
“When sky turns iron, mountains mourn,
Seek eyries where the storms are born.
There waits the last, the final sworn,
To close the wound and crown the thorn.”
“Beware the crown that sings of war;
A queen may rule, or end the shore.
If grief is helm and rage the blade,
Balance bleeds and light will fade.
But choose the quiet brave instead
Build with hands that once drew red.”
“And if they stand, the five made whole,
One breath, one will, one woven soul,
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