The priests enter through the stone arch <br />Into the circle, singing soft and low <br />The head of the order, approaches the altar <br />Before him is the first gleam of dawn <br />Between the last of the ones in robes <br />Stands the rope bound sacrifical victim, shaking <br />About to be slain on the blood stained stone <br />No point in begging mercy <br />For the life's that's about to be taken <br />All prayers have been said, the end is now nigh <br />Belief is in a god that demands human sacrifice <br />For this is Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain <br />And what is going on, happened long ago <br />But right now, it's Solstice and ahead, the sun is rising.<br /><br />Marilyn Shepperson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stonehenge/
