The Pack

Ten dusky ochre eyes penetrate the gloom

Five craven bellies ache with ministered devotion

Twenty paws walking in a line that signals doom

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Rows of yellowed teeth are bared, growls echo in the room

The sun went down too long ago, events are set in motion

Ten dusky ochre eyes penetrate the gloom

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You tarried overlong within the desert and it's bloom

Now have come the hunters who snarl without emotion

With twenty paws walking in a line that signals doom

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This matter is not personal, it doesn't matter whom

This covenant is primal and equally their notion

Ten dusky ochre eyes penetrate the gloom

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Pity! As this moonless night spares darkness on your tomb

If the pain behind's a raindrop, you're about to feel an ocean

Twenty paws walking a line that signals doom

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At first you fend them off, but behind their brethren loom

Your final thoughts are on the things that you have left unspoken

Ten dusky ochre eyes wink out within the gloom

And Twenty careworn paws erase a line that signaled doom