Fantastic arabesque comes to dance on my bedroom wall
With nightly patterns, shadows fall to ornate melody.
Is it trance or nightmare?
It is best I know for reason.
Tell me I am dreaming
These shapes and shadows in my mind.
This creature of the night
Succubus, witch or devil, I dare not ask
For fear, my soul would no longer be my own.
The ravenous maiden’s eyes glow
As she approaches softly to my pillow
Moreover, whispers temptations that would damn any man’s soul.
It is useless to resist; her charms are vast;
Her mouth is hot with desire until the biting end.
In the morning I lie as one dead,
Unable to move limb or eye,
’Tis only my heart beating ever faint
That shows life in me still…
My skin grows pale as my dreams become real.
My reflection is less in the mirror today.
Soon it will no longer gaze back at me.
As I join with the Countess of the night.