Have you been Spellbound?

 

A lyrical invocation of love’s power to illuminate darkness, binding body and soul in a timeless, spiritual enchantment.

Encapsulating the emotional and psychological state of the speaker. 

The word, Spellbound, suggests captivation, enchantment, and helplessness under another’s power — all central themes of the poem. 

It prepares the reader for a journey through obsession, love, and the mystical forces that bind two souls.

Have you too been—Spellbound?

(A lone voice whispers)

When the bright fireflies

Enlightened the black

Stygian darkness.

I ran.

Running like thunder

Into the darkest of September nights.

With my mind's eyes firmly fixed upon you.

In the distance, with your bedroom lights burning so bright.

What strange power has

compelled me to love

You so?

What has summoned this taste of paradise that burns so deep?

Like a volcano's burning hot pyre.

For inside, I now smile forever.

Always aglow.

That hint of a shimmer of Paradise, within your dark eyes.

Makes a man's beating heart and soul weep.

For I'm only made of flesh and blood.

Especially, whenever

I feel lonely and emotionally weak.

But your seductive words and hypnotic powers, just lift me up, and drive me wild

Your spells upon my indomitable Soul

Cast upon me

Do beguile.

For inside and behind your delicate brown eyes

I know

There's a white room filled with scented candles, and a black leather chair, where

I only exist.

It’s a place I send my gift

from the Almighty.

My soul, nightly.

To stand safe within this strange worlds, ever-swirling dark mists.

For whenever these old

emotional tears quietly fall, in this Stygian darkness.

What your eyes cannot fathom or see, but I think deep down, you understand.

I'll always belong

To just thee.

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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