Night Passage

The wind blew cold right through me
As I headed through the wastes
The venom coiled around my heart
And tightened as I quickened pace
Cold flames danced upon the sands
I spied a herd of camels
The muffled drones of Satan’s choir
Called from buried angels
The stars in Heaven marked me
They know my name in Hell
I swear I killed a drifter then
Whose body vanished where it fell
The air was rank with copper
Or blood from shuttered mines
A moldy skull stared from a ditch
Its fate foretelling mine
I found an empty mining town
Half swallowed by the earth
Bleached faces stared from windows
A sinkhole for a church
It was like a staved in coffin
So I headed east to Page
Spectral voices joined that din
Of suffering and rage