Rose-N-Thorn

Pagan poppy …and they said, "thou who didst consort with devils shall be cast out from the divine", and then they maimed and tortured, drowned and hanged, Those who's faith did not align. Children of the old ways, taken, murdered by decree. Healers, dreamers, lives all taken, for they would not agree. And in so doing, was created demons, hells and pain, Not in the acts of natural magic but in hearts and minds of men. The fear of knowledge in the darkness not held in book and rule, Turned those who searched for light eternal into their devil's tool. So stakes were raised and fires lit to purge the witches from the earth, "and th