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

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Grief

I still visit you

Somewhere deep inside 

You know

For our old memories together 

Carry me still

Everywhere I go

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Foundation.

In brief moments of reflection, do you still remember those you still love through introspection?

Need some inspiration?

 Beyond these dark days of ever-growing political dystopia

Social and claustrophobic phobia's 

Find something or someone to love and try to absorb that feeling like 

illicit opium 

Why

It could be the way to survive this life cycle's current pandemonium

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The Soldiers' Wedding Vow

 

We mark this as our hallowed oath

A mark, O Lord, for us both

To forever carry

For together

We stand

Eye to eye

Heart and hand

Now we're married 

And by this mark, we swear by peace and love to forever trust each other 

And always try to understand 

For this, the seal upon our hearts is real

As it carries deep inside

All we feel

Amen

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Bewitched

Daylight may softly whisper it's but an hour away

But such is the spiritual power of your divine company, 

I will stay

Transformed emotionally beyond all known boundaries of esoteric norm 

By your captivating form

While your carefully chosen words like spoken spells

Holds me and unfolds me

And it's where I want to forever stay

An hour away from sunrise, 

Laid together 

Entwined 

Listening to the early morning birds play 

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Foundation.

Have you ever experienced that magical moment, when you want the night to never end?

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The Invocation of Eros

 

(A lone voice whispers)

May this prayer help you be mine

My sweet and dear Clémentine

To summon Eros 

From the Deep Divine

So two hearts can forever be entwined

  

And through destiny  

Be bound in love's surreal ecstatic chains

No longer restrained

Like an unspoken quatrain

A stanza of four lines

Which forever pines

But to ignite the spark 

Of a new light 

A reborn sonnet to dispel the darkness 

Hidden out of sight

From my heart 

So Mother Moon

Turn your wheel to send a beam 

From The Great In-Between 

To empower me in this

My heart's only quest tonight 

To imprint how I feel

While I kneel

As I call her to me,

So mote it be  

What will be 

Will be

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Lucid Dreaming

 

Your treasured memory flashes like a falling star from my mind's eternal sky 

It creates cosmic time loops where spirits from the tomb gather 

While old conversations, like white snow, falls 

As time no longer flies

With such glitz and glamour 

And whenever I see your face amongst others again in that time loop 

As in, you swagger

I always remember why I still love you 

For like the mystical everlasting sea

The wild magic of you and me

Together 

Will forever flow and run free

Like a lone siren's love song once whispered 

To try to hypnotize 

Ulysses 

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Foundation of the piece.

Those we love live forever, whenever we remember.

Only read if you want more love and understanding in your life!

 

A supernatural piece.

Only read if you want more love and understanding in your life!

(A lone voice whispers after lighting a candle. The invocation ends with the blowing out of the candle, after the last line is recited)

The Prayer to The Elementals.
Candēla Meditation.

(A lone voice whispers)

Power of Air
Power of Land

Hear my souls
Holy writs

I pray for love and understanding
So come my way

Power of Night
Power of Day

Hear what I say

I summon thee to protect me

So be it

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P.S

You do realise by reading it silently, you've summoned more love and understanding into your life?

Energy goes where attention flows.

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Escapism

 

Foundation.

If you could escape this world, would you take that risk?

Escapism 

As if cursed by the son of perdition

As I go about my new life's mission to gain admission to her realm

With Aphrodite's dead ringer who whispers songs of exquisite rendition

Praying a lone arrow from Eros bow will strike, drawing gasps from the angels watching

High in the midnight sky 

As I breathe in her sweet aroma and passion filled scent, like pure oxygen 

And feel regal like a king

Like King Solomon 

As her aura captures my soul like a moth is attracted to a flame

So now all dark nights appear so long and so black

As the shadow people slowly advance

Whispering my name 

For they know I have been changed by someone so radical.

As I entered the Fifth Dimension one strange night 

Looking to finding a love so sacred and magical

But that's the magic of searching for the fantastical

For as sure as winds seduce trees by subtle caresses 

As the world wakes each year in a new spring and fresh life begins

I write this before I go to the Hidden Forest

Where the White Ash stands

Where green ivy hides the entrance to her lair, and other slaves play music, while chained to metal stands

With the smell of incense on patrol in the electricity filled air

Ready to invade lungs and take control

It's ten to two in the morning and I have to appear at four

So if I don't come back, I leave this for you to know I'm fine

Keep the house 

Car and money 

For I'm going to a new place where fear no longer exists 

A place I hope welcomes me in

Just pray for me that I don't 

lose my soul and become just another flesh slave 

Chained up playing music in her band

A prisoner trapped forever in her cave

As she sits or stands

On her golden throne singing with her crimson red lips

You're now mine

Now get in line

Your time will come play

For now, you're caught 

And can no longer run away

For you're now just another one of my familiars

One in a trillion 

No longer a civilian 

All this I know for a German called Schiller

Told me over the internet

Told me to come over

Told me I'd be a member of a wolf pack serving a queen in The Great In-Between 

So here I am

Pray for me 

Ma xxx

Forever yours

Your son 

Jimmie 0

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Have you had the Blues?

Have you had the Blues?

(A lone voice whispers)

As the silvery midnight sun rose

I drank my wet velvety smooth whiskey

Tasting exquisitely
My Life's Blues

I looked to the faraway sparkling stars

Wondering

Where do those lost really go

The mother's
Fathers
Sisters and brothers

After this mortal show

Is it to alabaster halls and reunions with old family and friends

Warm conversations
Endless soft music

Dancing around fires and priceless red wine

Or somewhere else

Cocooned between this world and the divine

Just relentlessly exchanging stories and fond memories

For there is no longer any time

Will they still remember us and send us a sign?

A soft kiss on the cheek
A red robin
A white feather

To always remind us,
They still wait love drunk

In all weathers

Longing for an embrace
Like a drop of spiritual moonshine

Will we ever see them again?

Or are they simply lost forever

No matter how hard we pray and mutter amen

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