Bright child of the Tarot, a new age awaits you—
but not through the mazes you’re wandering in.
Your gypsy desire and clairvoyant excursions
are setting your beautiful brain all a-spin.
The dog at the precipice barks out a warning:
the FOOL, the MAGICIAN and PRIESTESS are wrong.
Pay no heed to their signs and the omens around you—
let faith be your shield when the DEVIL seems strong.
JUSTICE, as blind as the HERMIT is horny,
has seen that our TOWER is stricken and doomed.
The SUN, MOON and STARS in their orbits bear witness
as LOVERS in bondage to DEATH are consumed…
Egypt can’t help you — the CHARIOT‘s stalled
While the TEMPERANCE angel was mixing the drinks.
The EMPRESS (a tedious feminist) preaches
an upside-down future, the HANGED MAN thinks…
Though the WHEEL almost crushes you turning this way;
and the staff of correction has battered you hard,
may the sovereign elector who holds every card
send a ray of redemption to light up your day.
Let the major arcana now bow and acknowledge
as JUDGMENT is sounded and shatters the sky
that omniscient and just is the blessed Redeemer
who loves every lunatic card-addled dreamer
like you and like me. Therefore hear as I cry
that the WORLD in its fullness can’t harbor His love —
nor the heavens within nor without nor above…
May the HIEROPHANT‘s dynasty wither away
and the EMPEROR‘s scepter be broken to shards
as the breath of God’s Spirit comes into our world
to reveal the true STRENGTH of your house made of cards.
CONNECT/HOOK 