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The Raven and the Eagle

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This is an illustration from a sketch I drew a year or two ago and forgot about until this poem/chant/song (?) fell into my head while innocently waiting to catch the skytrain and I was reminded of it. The original sketch was an idea for a tattoo, but my tattoo plans for myself have since changed. I still like the design though, hence the illustration.

The Raven and Eagle
are husband and wife.
The dark one rules death
and the golden one life.

His cloak painted with sunlight,
Eagle soars the blue sky.
With feathers black as pitch,
Raven watches us all die.

Both must be as one
lest there be chaos on Earth.
So from every rotting corpse
there springs a new birth.
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