Melinda - Mason Proffit

Far up in the foothills

Deep in Tennessee

I found her crumpled cabin

Where the wind can only breathe

I knocked upon the oaken door

And shuddered at my gloom

For scarcely had the night begun

When the clouds did shroud the moon

Her haggled face came forward

As whispered through the night

She asked if I would lead her

For she’d long since lost her eyes

She sat me down beside the fire

It’s slowly dying glow

And outside tho the wind did scream

The cabin only moaned

And then she asked me questions

Of my parents and my place

To my reply I’d never known

A smile did crack the face

You see she said your mother died

As you did leave the womb

But left inside a twin did lie

___? At his tomb

And lo just then the cabin door went crashing on it’s hinge

And just outside a women stood her hair like blackened fringe

Them that haunt, they see in me, she screamed and turned to run

Through the wind I heard her say the dead can bear no sons

Then the hag did stand again

She hobbled on her cane

Clutching at the knarled door she called my mothers name

Melinda

Melinda

Melinda

Melinda

Melinda

Melinda

Melinda