Embraced by Shadows: Love's Dream and Nightmare

In the realm of shadowed whispers and veiled emotion,

There lies a tale of heartbeats dressed in night,

Where ardor dances with the ghosts of devotion,

And love, clothed in darkness, bares its might.

Your gaze, a specter in the labyrinth of my mind,

A phantom's caress that leaves my sanity fray,

Yet, amidst the cloying fears that bind,

Your embrace is the dawn that steals my night away.

You're my solace when shadows wage their war,

My sanctuary in the tempest of my soul's unrest,

In dreams, you're the light that yearnings implore,

But in waking life, the terror that grips my chest.

An enigma, you weave hope and dread through my veins,

A paradox, the bane, and bastion of my heart's terrain,

Ours is a love where elation and anguish reign,

Each kiss, a sweet torment, mingling joy and pain.

Your whisper, a siren call, leads me astray,

Beneath a starless sky where secrets bloom,

And I, ever the moth to your consuming flame,

Find salvation and ruin in your love's perfumed gloom.

Thus we tread this tightrope, threaded by the moon,

A delicate balance, between rapture and ruin,

My nightmare, my dream, in your arms ensconced,

A dance of shadows, by love and fear pronounced.