Madam Astor The Dream Enchanter

 Madam Astor 

The Dream Enchanter

(A lone voice whispers by candlelight)

In a dark dream, 

Every night

In The Great In-Between, 

Whenever I dream

It's always the same

I hear you scream

"I'm here"

In your soft pulsating voice

Just hidden unseen

Not wanting to be seen

Then right out of the darkness and void

Above that darkness's noise emanating such fantastical heat

You appear like a half ghost in my midnight street and as my heart beats faster

You take my hand and lead me deeper in The Hereafter

Hidden still by the shadows, 

Bend low and whisper

"Call me Madam Astor

This realm's Pastor"

And as your sharp fingertips play a deep country tune across my skin 

As my astral sweat drips faster

Whenever my eyes start to spin and my soul speaks out and pleads to sin

You dig your nails in 

Even deeper into my skin and whisper

"Soon

So soon, I'll come to you in that quiet bedroom

For the last time

In two days after the fall of the midnight king, and the rise of the morning spring

I'll return to sing in this realm's unspoken rhymes, to make your spirit and eyes spin

One last time

Then fireworks will announce you're mine"

And then you're gone

Letting go of my hand

Leaving me standing alone at the gateway to The Blue Portal 

The way back to the land of living mortals

Gone with that soft pulsating goodbye ringing throughout my mind

Like church bells

But I can feel it's going to be soon you'll return

As time undeniably does fly

When you've been marked by a spell

Somewhere in that places darkness

The Hereafter 

For I've got goose pimples on my skin 

And tonights the fall of the midnight king and the rise of the morning spring

And deep down I know

You'll soon return

So hear this my call

I'm ready to take one last walk

With you

My dream enchanter from The Great In-Between 

Madam Astor

My soul's attractor and captor

The Great In-Between's

Ghostly Pastor 

My beloved wife

Who I once loved in the land of the living before Death 

Quietly crept up and grabbed her

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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