Chantilly

Chantilly [pronounced 'Chan-tee-lee']

I like to be with you but keep me on a tabletop or a shelf, I like to see you from where you have the best view!  Having turned to the spirt world shortly after dark, I am a vision not a mortal, I have risen from another portal.  I stand in darkness and in lightness will you see, talk to me and I will listen, swallowed whole in my eyes that glisten.  Your horrors and terrors that lives, where nightmares turn to a dream, where I will be by your side when you awaken wide eyed.    My dress and headpiece were handmade, I felt pretty from my head to toe, I am here with you, and I have nowhere else to go.  My little shoes were a little scuffed, but I choose I am so very chuffed! 

Am I your imagination or simply a reality?