Feature Writer: Unknown
Feature Title: Succubus Child
SUCCUBUS CHILD
Under the green rushes your heart beats like a pagan drum.
The shadows shape you by day.
Watch evening fall like a darkening cloak with murmur and hum .
Now comes the road and the way.
Clad but in the night-sky your pale limbs leap and flash in flight.
A call turns the wheels of your heart .
Rushing to unspoken wishes you come a fleshy dream in the night .
Aimed so true, an unerring dart.
Fathered by a wish and mothered by a dream .
You come.
Eyes of water and skin of cream .
You come.
The veil of worlds is pulled aside .
Your hand commands .
Between hidden and seen, a rending tide .
Your holy heart demands.
Around the margin of sleep where moonlight for beauty does weap, I hover…
‘Shhh’, you hasten…slender finger to lips .
Sleeping unknowing my hands crawl to your hips.
Drenched in shadow your form blends into mine.
Spirit and flesh, a sacred rhyme.
A kiss brings me falling home.
And unguessing … I wake alone.