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I’m a bad witch

I don’t memorize my rites & spells

& I kinda find it hard to tell

One theban letter from another

Not a good witch

If I was I’d honor each holiday

The ones where the Witches play

With the spirits and each other

I might believe in magick

But lately I’m too depressed

to conjure a card trick

I’m no wizard

Whether my beard is full & white

Or my chin is bald & bright

I’m still not worthy of that name

Won’t turn ya to a lizard

Nor a newt or bird of feather

You’d only get better

When I mistake my embers for flame

My mind it should be loose

But lately I’m wound up tighter

Than the knot on a noose

I’m just a sinner

Genesis though Revelation tell

How I’m going straight to Hell

But they don’t tell ya it’s full of saints

Less than a winner

Whether I’m lost I’m still losing

But not consciously choosing

To burn out or stay the same

Clutching crystals & Stone

I’ve only just learned that

My soul’s not my own