**_MAGIC_** comes with a price.

Are you willing to pay?

The fee of a soul

but a soul isn’t owned

nor blood or bone

or fleshly home

pay with your fate, mortals

the staff becomes serpent

then Aaron’s bloom

pay your price to the prince

cast tomorrow to pharaoh

to Horus and Ra

wade to the Nile

see it red again

write your fury on the reeds

your piece on papyrus

on sandstone sphinx

pry it from the hands of ——

build you a pyramid

behind your skull

lavish it with gold

have your power

your incantations

and hallowed ashes

seize the elements

and bow and be seized