It starts with a dream, time drifts in serene swirls of warm, soothing pastel colours
She appears, occupying every moment igniting senses only reserved for fantasy and fairy tales
Our eyes locked in an unbreakable embrace as all of time and space pauses endlessly
and now she’s in me, each cell infected boiling perilously out of control
There is the realization that mind, body and soul is no longer my own
Fear gives way to euphoria and I submit to this mysterious and unseen predator
In an instant I am shackled, a prisoner captured in a moment by just one gaze
The irony, free will and sovereignty is surrendered without contest
There she stands – lithe and statuesque as a marble statue of a Greek goddess
Her smile beckons me to my demise as does the Siren’s song to the mariner
Her lips deep crimson poised to fill me with the ichor of her unfathomable force as she in-turn, devours the essence of my being
Her long silk ebony hair is as black as the night encasing all around her in an inescapable mesh secreted by spinnerets
Her eyes are as blue diamonds of ice mesmerizing my senses and intellect
Rational thought and logic are but a memory, a historical footnote without significance
So, fate would have me no longer my own
I beseech thee then spectre, you who have ensnared me beyond resistance
Be gentle, Be kind, Be Honest and Be true
…And so it begins
I willingly submit all that I am to you
Adiuva me verterem figuram mundi
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