Sometimes, in my deepest dreams, I visit my witch in the woods.
My witch lives deep in a forest; just where the path appears to be darkest, you must go straight through.
There’s a bubbling brook you can follow, and when you reach the end, and lift that old willow branch aside, you’ll find a clearing with a bright moonbeam shining down on a small pond. Her house is on the other side. Can you see it tucked in the trees? She’s made friends with all the beasts here, but I never tarry.
She’s waiting for me tonight. The smoke from the chimney and candle in the window are to guide me here, when I wish to find her.
She always answers the door with a warm embrace that soaks into my greedy heart. We fall backwards into her hut, and Im enveloped in the smell of moss and herbs and char. I melt away and I’m just with her.
Her powers whisper and roar through her when we touch. We strip off our clothes and she holds me to her breast; my fingers dig into her flesh with the satisfaction of a child grasping fresh muddy earth. I hear an earthquake in each of her heartbeats.
The winds that play at my back, neck, and lick my ear, sing sweet wordless melodies that crack my heart open in my sternum. I feel the electricity of a whipping storm crackle down my back and through my core.
She beckons me with her deep wetness. Not a moment, or shallow warm folds of skin, but secrets like the depths of the ocean. I enter her, sink, and I’m sucked under like the strongest current, the quickest tide. I am hypnotized by the moon in her eyes and ride her powerful steady crashing waves. Crashing relentlessly against me.
And her fire? Should I even try and describe the way she blazes? I almost am blinded as she pulls me close to her. Her throat is filled with flames and I expect one day to be fully consumed, burnt to nothing with her lips locked against mine. But what a death?
No. No, death doesn’t come. But I am changed none the less. She speaks no spells, she asks no payment, and makes no demands, but I know she has changed me.
I pull my hood back on, dressing for the night, and turn to see her smiling lounging on her bed. Candlelight dancing around her, shining as her smile widens. It lights my way once more when I step back towards her. She reaches up and gently places those red hot lips to my forehead and brands me, my heart. It spreads down across my neck, shoulders, back, legs and down to the soles of my feet. I am hers.
I’m not the only traveler that takes their rest and comfort here. And she is not my only. There are times I come to her door when the light is not lit, and no fire blazes in the hearth for me.
But before she goes on her witchy travels she will pin that kiss to the door, my sweet witch. And I leave her mine, and I turn to find my way back through the misty night.