Artwork ©2023LadyKatJPhillips

You ignore the veil of the other world that waves right next to you. I am one who has a choice... this world, in the veil or the other side. This world is trying to maintain sanity. In the veil is a constant struggle of balance. Behind the veil is peace. My mind is not "sane" and I am able to be free of constraints behind the veil. I'm also socially unacceptable & frightening in the world of the living. I did not come from obscurity; I am obscurity. I am twisted and am able to see all sides of all the worlds.

The Raven leaves its perch on the bust of Pallas and he comes to visit with me deep within my soul. Oh Edgar, I do love your precious winged friend. He loves me back and comforts the parts of my nightmare stricken soul. Peacefully, I pet his velvet wings and he makes small and creepy noises of comfort. He understands that the macabre is my solace. The more viscera and gore I read or see, the more I am at ease. Nothing is as scary as the devil I was forced to be parented by. Or, the sister who had a black and grotesque creature with her always. My Raven is dark beauty and love. The Raven guards my soul.  The creature who attached to my sister was twisted with malice and rotted my sister to her core.  She was my sister, but she knew nothing of a sister's bond. 
The veil wraps around me and protects me. I live in both the living world and the world of our ancestors.  Their wisdom flows in my veins and out into the hand of another if it is wanted. I do not know strangers because I see straight into your soul. Warmth and love are waiting in my hands. All you have to do is risk your soul because if there is malice in you, pain will flow. Not physical, but in your life. Karma will come and reap her rewards. 

For I have been a servant to Karma for many years. I am her whip of glad or sad. Of pain or comfort. Full of peace or empty and hollow. 

Prose and Artwork Photo © 2023
Lady Kate Phillips
 "I see… what others refuse to see.
I am… what others refuse to be"