Dark Poem by Aphrodite Anastasia Menegaki

She tossed her runes, she burnt the sage 
She found a darkness darker than a mage
‘My daughter fair, my maiden young'
Said the witch in her foreign tongue
‘Your wish I'll grant but be warned 
Keep your heart guarded and keep it armed
For the darkness I see in him I've seen not before.
Tricks, games and a vixen's play you can play no more'.
 
He had a darkness, the darkness of a mountain,
Hiding beneath its crust a blazing fountain.
His smile and his words flow like gentle winds,
Guiding away strangers, washing all his sins,
Turning into storm for whom his words defies,
And nothing gives away his secrets but his eyes;
Calm and dark as they seem, like waters still
They run deep, luring my lust and my will
He wrote his name across my heart with his ink 
His gaze; a black opium and intoxicating drink
Ever so vast and dark; an ocean in the midnight
And I navigate his soul and his endless night 
I follow the sparks shinning amidst his eyes
As explorers followed the North Star of the skies
 
Uncharted waters, uncharted lands bring me no fear
I'll cross them all just to hold him to me near
I'll succumb to his darkness and his night
And I'll invite all his demons to the light
But my dear, take heed and never forget
I, too, bear a darkness he's never met.