The Incense by Alisa Velaj

I again pray after silence and stay silent after prayer. 
The lily of my dreams has long fled the white colour. 
The white of snows, the white of petals… and even 
the white of eggs. 
The raven, blacker than death, haunts the lily, 
fading away on the wings of storms.

-Alisa Velaj, She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality

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