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Wanda

she conjured my fate

juggled my dreams

with her visions my memory teems

 

I was treading water

sitting on my hands

she took me off to distant lands

 

hands that soothed

performed illusions

making sense of my delusions

 

shelter in her cloak

solace from her eyes

with my pain her mercy vies

 

that charming smile

she shone abroad

seemed to lift my...

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