markers of ritual

    if there's a gap no cause to see it filled
    by those whose voices are most overjoyed
    so easy once the first commands are willed

    the autumn flow in winter was hard stilled
    with blandest starches all our folk were cloyed
    if there's a gap no cause to see it filled

    what mattered most was that the grain was milled
    and that the peasantry was all employed
    so easy once the first commands are willed

    with reason we had each field newly tilled
    and over all the land our youths deployed
    if there's a gap no cause to see it filled

    at night we knew how swiftly beer was swilled
    but not a one of us would grow annoyed
    so easy once the first commands are willed

    at harvest end the largest swine are killed
    and blood is poured in honour of the void
    if there's a gap no cause to see it filled
    so easy once the first commands are willed

(C)2008, Ledgister Fragano