I reworked and extended my own not-poem response to one of Half-Baked Prompt' posts on Bluesky into lyrics, and recorded it with some slow doomy riffs!

The original post -- and the prompt above it -- is here:
https://bsky.app/profile/vertigocelot.bsky.social/post/3lipjhmnbks2l

The original not-a-poem was also inspired by instructions I remember reading on how to behave if addressed by Queen Elizabeth during her visit to Winnipeg in 2010.  These lyrics keep that idea somewhat intact and pounce even harder on the not-poem's implication that "The Wolfmother" is merely one of many epithets for a much stranger and more powerful being.

Those lyrics are here:

If questioned, do not answer The Wolfmother
(even in your mind)
Light falling from wild eyes to loose the night's control
(its fears you can find)
Do not pray to The Wolfmother
or ask her to vanquish any of your foes

Set aflame in her -- in its -- eyeshine

Do not deny The Wolfmother her vengeance
And do not deny that huntress your soul
Face away from The Wolfmother, and lie still
That your shattered bones may yet yield
some secret of old

Find yourself reborn a warrior of its worldform
Hooves and fangs, tail, spike, and blood appetite
These new eyes reflect bright in her darkened den like stars
The Wolfmother, Nightmare's Shine, lifting you to fly
Lifting you to rend and rip
(to shred and to defy)
For all her creatures denied existence
(with their fears you align)
Do not pray to the Lynxmother
you'll find only a thousand more battles you must win
In form that cannot perceive what it truly is
(do not fear the wolverine star)

Do not deny The Wolfmother her vengeance
And do not deny the Echidna your soul
Fossil bones of The Wolfmother's foes
that reveal lands of old
Do not deny The Wolfmother her vengeance
And do not deny this hunter your soul
Face away from The Lynxmother, and lie still
That your broken remains may yet yield
some secret of old

Do not fear The Wolfmother
Do not anger The Wolverine Star
This land will learn to not defy The Wolfmother

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