Morgan B

Gerthild\'s Farewell: \'Autumn Twilight\'

“Dear Womba, friend; this thread is short.

When I am gone and can speak no more,

and eat dust, whilst worm-chewed, gnawed,

and Niðmund nibbles at my breast,

and can neither walk nor dance nor sing

for all my joints have been far-stretched,

bones scattered, throat torn, ravaged

by the rats and worms of deepest earth

to feast on bloody heart and guts of mine;

when great Greed, the king of gnawers, comes;

the grinding one, who shreds all flesh

to drill my eyes out from this skull –

sing songs of me, my dearest friend,

and dance, as if I still was there.”