I am Tarot by TempestMoon

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

The following excerpt is from a Tarot Theory and Practice Book by Ly de Angeles that I have been reading. I thought I would just share it with you.

 

Tarot

 

Ominous..

This built up haze of rage upon a people!

Weave softly through it...

They do not know I taste them when they're lying;

On the surface they pretend, inside they're dying

And all the while they say how hard they're trying

But trying doesn't work - to live you do it!

 

They fear me for I tell them what they're hiding

Deep beneath the well-kept faces of the young;

I tell them every buried song unsung;

Every sight and every slander of the tongue;

Of the hell into which, slowly, they are sliding.

 

I am Tarot; revolution...

I'm the Raven that sits, and whispers, on your shoulder;

I can name the savage beast that lurks behind you;

I'm the mirror of the Thing you hope won't find you

And you fear me, for I cannot remind you

That you're older now... and will get so much older.

 

She comes to see herself in my reflection

In the hope that I will tell her nothing's wrong;

That behind the weak betrayal she is strong;

That she can change the places where she can't belong ...

That she can handle life without love's lost affection.

 

How I want to set them free;

See them treat life tenderly;

Have them know that they are me!

 

Malevolent...

The stealing hand of "How do I survive?"

That chokes him like the grief of Lilith's daughter;

That takes his breath away and makes him fear;

"Is there anybody," begs he softly, "who can hear?

Someone who won't make me 'got-to-the-slaughter'?

Because I'm drowning but I cannot see the water."

 

I beg them "Dance;"

I cry "Alive!"

I scream out 'Live it more,

don't merely just survive!

You have the Name of it within  ---

to waste life is the only sin...

to taste the holy bloody feast of life's creation

is your first and last --- and only ---obligation."

 

I am the song of you that calls you to awaken;

the archer and the bow, not just the arrow.

She speaks for me, but I am you, forsaken;

I am you, always was, down to the marrow ---

the deep and ancient future.

         

             I am Tarot.

[Glenda Carr]

Wow... I love this!