Love Potion

In winter, the cold earth sleeps below
Surrounded by dead memories
Battle scars are worn and tired
The snow falls down on the hair
Of my beloved

Winter, urn of death
All the stars have left the skies
Singing hell’s loathsome songs

A crystal voice tells me
Keep my connection
To the spirits strong

I call to the Witches
On a full moon night
I call your name three times

Our kisses are magic
Like the sweetest tune
I look like a wild and wicked witch
Around midnight
The Queen of Doom
Dressed in pitch black garments

In mists and moon
Through darkness and gloom
I have been searching
For love’s Alchemy
The hidden mysteries
You are my magic elixir

Excite me with love potions
Offer spells and charms galore
Love potion, boil and bubble
Poison darts, toil and trouble

Brew me a love philter
Strong and deep
And with the fire in my blood
I’ll drink the elixir of death or sleep
At the heart's funeral
I will weep and wait for thee

Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; home to dreams and nightmares. Alexis is a former Social Service Worker, befriending the demons that roam freely amongst her writings. She had a small measure of underground success with her gothic rock and darkwave bands in the past. Besides having rare mystical experiences she hopes are not just short circuits in the brain, she offers Tarot Readings and writes poetry and fiction, starving in the garret with her muse. A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire is even worse. Please donate non-perishable food items and B-negative blood (and make it a double!).

Alexis' fiction has been featured in Danse Macabre, Schlock, Screams of Terror, and U.K.'s Dark of Night Magazine. Her poetry has been featured in numerous online and print publications, including Aphelion, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Metaphysical Times, Night to Dawn, ParABnormal Magazine, The Sirens Call and elsewhere. Her first collection of poetry, Devil in the Clock, a dark and sinister slice of the macabre is available on Amazon. Her second collection of poetry, Singing the Bones, is available on Amazon and from Cyberwit Publishing. Her third collection of poetry, Exquisite Corpse, is coming soon. You have been warned...

Visit her website: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/ and her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6S5u4yX73kA1ZWGnKaEBA/videos

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