A Recipe For Protection – Hour 2, Prompt 2

A Recipe for Protection
You will need:

1 contraction of perseverance
2 small rocks – your favorite
1 beetle carapace or chitinous exterior
1 gram of love
1 Large AA Egg

Set the contraction of perseverance aside, it is important to have it ready.

Grabbing a bowl the size of your heart and place the beetle carapace inside
Its interior shell should face the heavens, reflecting hidden colors in the kitchen light
Taking a silver needle, pierce the egg, do not remove the needle. Leaking is okay.
Sprinkle your love over the perseverance and the beetle carapace in equal parts
And sing the song of your heart. It’s okay if it doesn’t make sense.
While you sing grind the shell between two small rocks, preferably ones you like
Let them grind the beetle into dust and then keep grinding them,
Using your perseverance and love grind them into dust.
Let sit 20 minutes and remove the needle from the egg.

Take what remains of the egg, for much has probably leaked out,
Pour it over the dust through the small hole from the needle
Do not break the shell.

Stir well until the mixture has incorporated the egg into a paste
Smear it on the photo of that you wish to protect and bury it somewhere secret.
And deep.
Don’t tell anyone about this, just be there for the one you want to protect
Let them come to you with their troubles
And remember to go to someone with your own.

4 thoughts on “A Recipe For Protection – Hour 2, Prompt 2

  1. I really like this poem; as I read it I thought of a Wiccan spell. The precise and meticulous language is especially evocative, and “Its interior shell should face the heavens, reflecting hidden colors in the kitchen” makes me think of this ‘kitchen’ being out in the open air, as much a part of nature as it is a working space.

    1. Thank you, I have a book of collected Romani spells and I admit I drew a little bit of inspiration from how those were written when I wrote this one, I just really loved the idea of this being a “useful” recipe <3

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