Bast and sekhment

• Katherine Scanlon, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2005

A mistress; her body crafted delicately
Whilst her head, felinity shines
A Goddess of Egyptian civilisation
The sun, moon and birth. Her Deity signs.

Bast, created to benefit Sekhmet’s destruction
To lick the blood off war’s valiant mark
The ying Patroness to the yang warrior
Life’s only light to death’s fogging dark.

Historically known, is wisdoms huntress
A mask head of a lioness shadowing black skin
The Cyclist of death, created the cyclist of life
A deceitful mixture of sweet and sin.

Sekhment is the fire in the eye of Ra
Ancient Egyptian’s mythology Queen
“The Feast of Bast and Sekhment”
The original reason to celebrate Halloween.