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NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 28

The Lost Ritual

There deep within the sacred wood

Are runes carved deep in stone

Where once an ancient priestess sang

To spirits now unknown.

I sought it out that long lost glade

With pool clear and deep

Saw flowers deck those holy stones

While they, their secrets keep.

What profound rites were practiced here

In that age gone by?

What tales they’d tell, and tell they would

But not to such as I.

I do not know the words or signs

Can’t coax that place to stir

No sounds now but some distant bird

An insects gentle whir.

The ritual is long forgot

But power lingers still

Though none now live to summon it,

I pray it always will.

Cheers,