Day Eight of Twelve Days of Devotion to Gwyn ap Nudd

On this eighth day,
I consider Your hound
and find myself staring
into the jaws of death.

His mouth is wide open,
his throat a long corridor
to Your realm – the pass
of the dog’s mouth.

His name has been translated as ‘Death’s Door’.

In passing through it we practice death,
time after time until his jaws
close forever
and there is no return.