Ash Mother

"Ash Mother"

In the dark where evil sleeps Where sanity is useless trash I tell a tale to give you creeps And inspire true fear of things that slash

On a quiet All Hallows Eve

When rain did drizzle from the sky Two siblings from their home did leave Not dressed as ghosts but end was nigh

While friends of theirs did candy find Among the houses that they passed The siblings were of different mind To another house they hurried fast

They had been promised a lovely thing By a man with long, sharp teeth If they came at midnight&apos;s ring They&apos;d raise their mother who sleeps beneath

The ritual was long and harsh Twice they fainted dead away Their blood was marking every hearth When lit they marked the spirit&apos;s way

And in a scream and rushing wind One sibling stared upon the other Dead and fallen in their sin He had not seen their risen mother

From the hearth&apos;s not blackened grate A crawling figure made of ash Pulled herself in and sealed the fate Of her two children as she moved fast

The living child gazed on in horror As Ash Mother swallowed the dead sibling whole Their mother was hungry, was now a terror She smiled at the living child, bloody and cold

The other child ran, but did not get far Teeth now sank into her arm and she shrieked Ash Mother didn&apos;t noticed her child&apos;s alarm And with crunches she put her child to sleep

The Ash Mother waits in that house all alone Her children are gone and her hunger remains Dare you to enter and you will atone For the sins of the siblings you will feel their pain

In the dark where evil sleeps Where sanity is useless trash I&apos;ve told a tale to give you creeps And inspire true fear of things that slash