Fate’s Welcome

Luna’s limelight lures, her mute scream’s casting call,
a promise, a pact wakes me within a dream, to fall
under sickly green Halloween spell, her price to tell.
She says my drowsing pleas to travel Cronos’ Well,
to past, where innocents have lost souls to darkveil;
to lift its curse with might, restore their sacred braille,
have been heard. She lays out terms without words.

Birds chatter me awake, morning’s sun, warm skin.
Eyelash flutters open to nothing, shadowed, grim.
Promises made under her limelight’s lure descend.
Fingers fly to puckered flesh, embossed forehead
of my Third Eye. Tenderly I press each small tick,
knowing soon in Cronos’ Well I will learn tricks to
save each innocent, my blindness but small price.

Sanaa is today’s host of dVerse’ Poetics Tuesday. Sanaa says:
Today, we are going to have fun and write deliciously spooky poems inspired by a playlist of songs. Choose ONE song of your liking from the playlist and write a poem. Let the music determine the mood, imagery, setting, and voice. The poem doesn’t have to retell the songs; instead, use each one as a doorway into a different Halloween world.

I chose:
“The Killing Moon” — Echo & the Bunnymen
Prompt: The moon becomes an omen. Write about a night when fate seems to be waiting for someone to make one irreversible choice.