Are you spellbound?

 

Blessed be. 

Velumbound. 

This transmission is a Gothic, sensual prose that explores the seductive and intoxicating threshold between creative obsession, erotic intimacy, and dark ritualism.

Where the act of reading and writing is portrayed as an intense, hypnotic encounter. 

The phrases "swept up in these mesmerising lines" and "illuminated prose whispers still" frame the text itself as a living, seductive force that holds power over the reader.

While the Cycle of Day and Night acts as a boundary between the mundane, exposed world and a shadowy, private realm. 

Since Sunlight offers a momentary gasp for air ("come up for air", "replenish your naked soul"), yet true attraction awakens when night returns ("When the setting Sun sets").

As a subtle complicity in "Sin" shifts from author/reader or lover/stranger to fellow conspirators ("when a sinner meets another"). 

The connection is not based on moral purity, but on mutual recognition of taboo, vulnerability, or moral deviation.

The need for more Ritual & Power Dynamics. 

As the closing lines move the dynamic into mysticism ("secret initiation", "occult spell").

When a secret connection becomes a mutual trance where the gaze ("a look into the eyes") seals the speaker's total emotional or psychological temptations.

But be careful as you accelerate the pace toward the end to mimic the hypnotic effect of this incantation.

As the transmission moves through a clear psychological arc of:

 1. Disorientation: Awakening from the previous night's trance.

 2. Temptation: The direct provocation ("Hey, stranger / Do you want more").

 3. Capture: The final assertion of mystical seduction.

Shall we begin again? 

(A lone voice whispers) 

    

Are you there 

Swept up in these mesmerising lines until the curtains stop holding the sun

Back

So you can come up for air

And let the bright light replenish your naked soul

As my illuminated prose whispers still from the night before 

Hey, stranger

Do you want more

When the setting Sun sets

For there is something deeper when a sinner meets another

And a secret initiation begins that only a look into the eyes can tell

That you've fallen under my occult spell

(C) 

Copyright John Duffy