Mother Vengeance

She cackled comments 

from the couch.  

Hurled curses  

down the halls.  

Locked us up  

in gilded cages.  

Nailed our wings  

to dungeon walls.  

She burned our blood 

in effigy  

while whistling  

the Witch’s Waltz.  

And she swore  

she’d live to see the day 

our fates were sealed in

vaults.