Halls of the Dark Muse

This was originally written as part of another poem, but I felt as if these verses did not really connect with the flow of the overall poem and diverged from the rest of the poem as well as making longer than need be.

But I thought they worked quite well as a poem in of themselves.

The raven is a bird that has been seen in many traditions as a messenger of the dead and a pyschopomp that would take the souls of the dead into the Otherworld.

The owl reference I got from a book I am reading which was set within the Congo, and had this whole thing about how the people believed that owls would steal the souls of dead children.

Takers of the Dead

Haunting an owl calls and
I am aware of narrow escape
as they hunt the night for wayward
souls to devour and carry off
in nothing but oblivion.

Raven who is scavenger
and collector feasts upon
the flesh of the dead only,
does not swallow up whole
eternities, instead, he delivers
me into this evernight