{"sf1_id":1980846,"sf2_id":null,"title":"'Anubis'","author":"Televassi","words":239,"posted_at":"2023-04-27T22:45:00.000Z","tags":["Anubis","Death","Desert","Jackal","Love","Magic","Poem","Poetry","Romance"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1980846-anubis","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1980846","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1980846\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"Here's the full version of my poem, 'Anubis' and the accompanying art, found in Heat 13 by Sofawolf! It was always really exciting to be involved in those wonderful projects.\nPURCHASE HEAT 13 HERE!https://www.sofawolf.com/products/heat-13https://www.sofawolf.com/products/heat-13https://www.sofawolf.com/products/heat-13","content":"Dissipated down, into swirls\n\nOf midnight blue dunes,\n\nThe beat of the nekhakha stirs\n\nShadows from the breathless night.\n\nAccepting the indictment, I heed thy call,\n\nFor thou hast come to claim my heart.\n\nThen come fulfil thy pact;\n\nTake from me this worn-out heart,\n\nAnd distil down from the loveless husk\n\nTimeless sands, to lie safe in your canopic jar.\n\nI offer myself unto thee, renouncing\n\nFor your deathly favours those false claims\n\nSet in the flesh of my soul's previous term;\n\nThere's no love living that compares to thee.\n\nCome claim me, drape your ebony splendour\n\nOver me, I've surrendered all in life for thee.\n\nPress your black snout against my nape,\n\nBreathe sacred litanies into my flesh,\n\nAs you bring yourself close upon my back,\n\nAs I tumble down to lie in crooked tombs\n\nThat you alone have perfumed for me.\n\nPushed flat, you pant out the spells\n\nTurning my flesh into a fevered shiver,\n\nLimbs snaking across the silver sands\n\nAs we cry out in the echoes of our night.\n\nLay upon me sacred writs, circle without pause,\n\nWrap me tightly with your hieroglyph spells;\n\nI surrender my life, and submit only to thee.\n\nAnd though I stumble eyeless in the dark,\n\nYou'll guide my wayward soul to the horizon,\n\nNow the weighing is done, I am free,\n\nThough in our first kiss I could not resist\n\nA fleeting breath, as you stole my soul.\n\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n"}