STONE
The recesses of this darkened cell
Bring my senses to an obscure Hell
That chokes me with its hardened stone
Against my cheek, chilled to the bone.
My eyes are weak; they stare into
A pit - air of the darkest hue.
My cell, though safe, is nothingness -
Its walls are damp. No soft caress
Against my skin, no snug embrace,
No euphoric glance 'pon my victim's face.

So here I lay, stone is my shroud.
Far away, lost within a crowd
Of wails and sighs from long ago
That only make my hunger grow.
Madness etched into the stone:
A thousand wails, yet all alone.
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I DREAM OF VAMPIRES

The dark engulfs my silent world,
And night becomes my home,
I stare into the black I love,
And endlessly I roam.
With each new turn I drift away...
I'm lost and can't return.
Yet oddly, I don't really mind.
There's much for me to learn.
But somehow there is something wrong,
It's not enough for me.
I'm not allowed to have my peace
Until I wake to see
The one thing that will make my life
Much better than before.
Although I don't know what it is,
I want it even more.
I search the darkness aimlessly
And know not what I seek.
My effort seems to be in vain,
But then appears Monique.
Through the mist as if a dream
She forms within my sight.
With glowing eyes and arms outstretched,
She pushes back the night.
No words escape her blood red lips,
And yet she calls to me.
She traps me with seductive stare -
I feel no need to flee.
My flesh and soul belong to her.
I can't deny her now.
I find myself in front of her
Bent deeply in a bow.
With one hand underneath my chin,
She lifts my face to hers.
Like a hungry but contented cat,
She sighs, and then she purrs.
Slowly her red lips start to part,
Revealing fangs of death.
With no protest at all from me
She sucks out my last breath.
For I Am Hers
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THE ENDLESS THIRST

I awaken in my icy tomb,
Imprisoned by its walls.
I cry for you to set me free,
But no one hears my call.
Alone within the confines
Of this cold, damp concrete cell,
I find comfort in the darkness
Which shields me from my hell.
The pains of hunger eat at me.
My body's worn and weak.
I feel the stinging in my eyes
As a tear streams down my cheek.
Tinted with a tinge of red,
The tear stops at my lips.
I close my eyes and think of you.
Your light has been eclipsed.
I can almost taste your blood,
So rich and filled with life...
My teeth piercing your silky flesh
As if they were a knife.
The perfect drink - so warm and lush -
Would make me feel alive...
It's essence permeating me,
My immortal soul revived.
But alas it will not happen
For you are nowhere near.
I've waited countless days and nights
In hopes that you'll appear.
I pray someday it will come true,
And you will be my feast.
Until then, I must still remain
A lone, blood-thirsty beast.
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THE ENDLESS THIRST PART 2

A chilly winter's night, I feel
A stinging in my heart.
You cry for me, within your tomb.
My lips quiver, then they part
(-- But only muffled sobs escape.)
I feel your aching body wrapped
In a heartless granite shell,
We both endure this loneliness -
This barren, choking Hell.
But then, to nothingness I soar,
The night wind is my guide.
Forever drawn to your impulse,
From your call, I cannot hide.
My blood, my flesh, are offerings
Of boundless passion that can heal.
I envision rapture, lost in you,
In delirium, I feel
Your breath upon my pulsing chest,
Your hands caressing me.
Dark Angel - take my innocence
And forever set me free.

A breeze... my senses now awake.
In darkness now I scream.
I tumble down cold granite steps
But land softly, as in a dream.
Dark Angel, I answer your painful cry
After endless weary nights -
Upon the threshold of your tomb
My heart, my soul, alights.
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MERCIFUL DEATH
Writhing bodies clad in black
Flow past me as I stare.
Like beacons on a stormy sea
The lights around them flare.
Leather, velvet, metal, lace -
These ornaments they don,
Yet their necks remain unclothed
For me to gaze upon.
Swirling through the smoke-filled air,
The music lifts their soul.
Succumbing to this sonic drug,
Their minds have lost control.
I pull my cloak in close to me
And drift into the crowd.
I search each ghoulish painted face
As death looms like a cloud.
My angel's face appears to me
Amidst the swaying mass.
I glide to her through sound and haze,
Ignoring those I pass.
My eyes fixate upon her skin -
So smooth, so soft, so white...
Her naked arms flail wildly.
She waltzes with the night.
I reach out, and I touch her hair
Which has fallen in her eyes.
She sees me for the first time now
And jumps back in surprise.
I grasp her hand and pull her near.
She's powerless to my touch.
I feel her warmth flow into me.
I want her blood so much.
But I can bring no harm to her,
Despite my deadly urge.
As I stand there with my love,
My heaven and hell converge.
I cannot make her who I am
To live eternally,
Feeding off the innocent
As they die painfully.
And so I share a final dance
With her before I go.
I kiss her lips once, turn away,
And let my hunger grow.
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THE SWEETEST KILL

My movements make no sound.
My footsteps quick and light...
I glide on down the darkened street
Accompanied by night.
Passing mortal strangers
Who look the other way,
I'm intoxicated by their scent.
These creatures are my prey.
I stop beneath a streetlamp
Where they can view my face.
Seeing my unnatural skin,
They soon quicken their pace.
Their cowardess amuses me.
Those eyes so full of fear.
I throw my head back, and I laugh
For all of them to hear.
Stepping from the light,
I'm hidden by the dark.
Continuing along my path,
I reach a lonely park.
Sitting on a wooden bench,
A girl cries silently.
Her face is streaked with salty tears.
She fails to notice me.
Her eyes are tightly shut.
Her body shakes with sobs,
Yet still I hear her beating heart.
Within her chest, it throbs.
Slowly, I approach her
Until I'm by her side.
Admiring her tender cheeks,
I see her tears have dried.
I move my face in towards her neck
And hover for awhile.
Much to my surprise, I see
Her frown turn to a smile.
She looks directly at me,
Her eyes of deepest blue...
With the softest lips I've ever seen
She mouths the words "Thank you."
I sink my teeth into her flesh.
On blood is what I thrive.
I drink till I can drink no more.
Again, I am alive.
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ETHEREAL
Delicious vistas by slow degrees
and passion kissed promises whispered beneath
in luminous lather where starlight caressed
the purest of magic that heaven possesed

Ethereal elegance in bewitching design
woven in groves where the shadows resign
and wounded lace fingers trace spellbinding poetry
sugar sweet melodies twist in this symphony

And lost in the fleece of her sensuous embrace
while star sweetened moon flowers pale in her grace
and a summer sky fades when the twilight winds blow
in the deep southern dream where the fireflies glow
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RESONANCE OF RAIN
Veiled curtains flow,
wrapped in spiral winds of confusion
this darkened breeze will know
how storm clouds breed illusion
this empty room so torn by the storms of yesterday

tempest dreams to blow,
teacups filled with dripping memories
whirlwinds moving slow
stir the walls with jaded tapestries
and roll the river wild when the treetops start to sway

a winter garden grows
lush with flowers of uncertainty
moonlight tangled in the throes
with the winding vines of jealousy
and tend the bitter nectar deep inside

falling petals filled with wounds
hide their fragrance from eternity
for the beauty never blooms
in the rain of insecurity
and the rainbow never shines in darkened skies
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FALLING IN THE SKY
There's a chance when in darkness of falling into the sky.
The danger, I believe, lies in the lingering of conciousness upon
the heavens. Hours caught up in the longing , eyes cast to the stars
and breathing, dreaming, believing. Need and imagination,
captured visions of fairytale magic, waltzing within your heart and mind.
Enchantment can lift you and carry you away
on the fanciful wings of the dream. Once captured and taken
the dreamer is helpless to deny the drawing of the night sky upon her thoughts.
The evening hours illuminated by starlight are spent
in an endless calling to step out upon the veranda
and watch again, wish again, wait again.
Sparkling and twinkling and flashing upon the darkened velvet drop,
like some golden code begging for the knowing eye,
shine for the dreamer, shine for the believer,
shine for the patient gazer.
And thoughts, wishes, dreams are cast down and formed,
molded into the fabric of the mind. They drip down slowly
and embed their ties into the heart so that nothing of the earth below
can hope to dissever the bond between.
The long warm arms of the heavenly sentinals beckon and spell.
Weaving in whispers, "Come and sail on my silvery dream".
In the riddle of starlight and the darkness of space
there is a fairytale awaiting you.
Reaching and pulling you to take the dance into your smile,
engrave the reflection into your eyes
and carry the passion with you forever.
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MASQUERADE
When the setting sun glows with the red of the rose
Awaken the fire inside
In a dark masquerade as the orchestra fades
On the wings of the raven he rides

With a crisp serene adrift like a dream
tangled on the autumn breeze
like a twist in time tilled in silent rhyme
echoing through the trees

Laced in wicked display with the passion to slay
weaving a warm tale to bind
a smile with the ray of a silvery blade
whispering deep in your mind

Like a dark serenade in a midnight charade
a velvety blanket of gold
shifting the shape of the shadows it makes
warming the depths of your soul
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SWEPT AWAY
Pale my love softly whisper
drinking so deeply of me
sifting sands hold a vision of darkness
and serpents that coil in the trees

alone in the world slowly dancing,
fading lights call your soul to my skies
so dark in the shadows
alive where the moon glows
as starlight drips into your eyes

the keeper of keys to a secretive soul
a sensual merchant of dreams
a healer of pearls calling diamonds from coal
binding spells while a lonely heart sings

with a twist of the vines soon the heart he posseses
when the weakend knees bow
soon the sweet tongue confesses
in the silence of rhymes that will never deceive
no return,
no retreat,
no release,
no reprieve

swept away in strong wings
from the cold skies you're under
fast escape from the rain
and the roar of the thunder

and your innocent eyes plead for gentle embrace
a whispered lust kiss with a ruby wine taste
and the aching is lost as you fall to the night
when the princess succumbs to the Vampire's bite
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FINAL SHINE
On weary mind half shattered by dreams, melting in
colored decay, glass cities fallen upon ashen stones
cast aside by an ocean restless, I awake
upon the shores of night. Echoes taunting
memories from my mind. Crying soft lullabyes
drip from her eyes as her fingers play
upon my neck, tracing patterns as shadows
upon my skin. Tonight the winds begin in anticipation
of the coming storm. Warmed by the fires
burning the evening breeze to whispers as the
clock ticks the hours witching. To gaze upon
the sky, starless in wondering, fading to crimson
and the scent of snowflakes tempting Autumns
dying soul. The winter wild breathing
sweet for those who walk in the season of wither alone.
Calling crisp mornings and daylight to
early darkness. I hear the summer falling, the warm
days fast to fading, the leaves have ceased
their turning and winter in my heart is rising.
The chill grey fog creeps to within and without
those who pray for shelter when the frost
pervades the bones. She smiles at me outside my window.
Pray my soul awake, calling me to play.
Follow me into this dream. Safe in my arms
to walk this wonderland of white. Pulling me
away from the light and the fire, she waits
with promises, kisses the colors of the summer sky,
she smiles.
I laugh aloud from deep inside the blizzard,
fill my veins with ice and snowflakes fall
into my open eyes. Braving the storm uncovered
to taste the cold wind. My stiffened body blue
from winters deepened kisses.
Her silver hair entangles and grips
the fingers from my hands screaming
whispered pain dying as the blinding sleet
wind encloses my face to white mist burning.
She swallows my vision. Like white fire searing through my body.
Mine forever, mine forever.
Deeper beneath the falling sky, deeper into her arms.

Into winters final shine.
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DROP DOWN
Drop down sweetly for me my love
where the torrid angels sing
and bring to life your silent prayer
with the promise of black wings

Drop down sweetly for me my love
where the southern winter writhes
in the icy grip of loneliness
one January ember shines

down below the mystic moon

in poetry of pain
from ashes of your fading faith
preserved in woven chains

deep inside the depths of you
the whispered needs were told
another tasted dreams the same
of fires burning cold

And further down the bridge was found
and the stars fell down without a sound
And the princess cried and the Phantom heard
and the love was known in the rhyming words
and her faith was found and his shadows warmed
and the woven chains were now disarmed

with the poetry of the undeceived
when the Vampire whispered
and the princess believed
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GLEAM
And it was then as it is now...

in the twilight of the
year that we call October. When the wild winds
sing icy melodies of the coming winter and summers
fire fades to the cool candle gleam of Autumns kiss.
The low sweet voice of the season calls a rustling
of dry leaves to a whirlwind dance of amber and burgundy residue
upon a slate grey canvas while swaying treetops
abandon their withered veils to the frosted ground below.
Gentle the madness that calls to awaken you. Like a slow crawling
whisper of a promised kiss warmed by the evening fire,
the milky mist beckons my soul to wander the night
drinking of the storm and feeding on shadows, reveling in the taste
of the waxing moon.

But it was upon those winds that she fell to me,
like an Autumn angel from heavens treetop cradle. Kiss and a whisper
blown from her lips and tangled in the breeze.
Beauty in solemnity like a saddened creature who lost her way
in the forest and forged her own world there in the moss
and flowered darkness. Lost distant gaze tetheres my heart
and unleashes my spirit.
Starlight sweetened skin and rose honeyed lips,
so delicate and fragile yet she tears my armor and quiets my blade.
Princess of shadows locked away in a castle of silence
and unspoken wishes, drifting in a vision of dark space and dust.
Milky white moonlight reflections on ice, sleeping maiden awaiting
a kiss to awaken. In her eyes a thousand words are told,
upon her lips a million secrets are kept
and in her heart a single dream stands like a sentinel
awaiting the hand of midnight to lead her to the palace
and dance her to the edge of dawn.

It is for her beauty that these pages exist

It is for her love that these words were penned

It is for her heart that the Vampire lives

My dear Firefly, thank you for the wings

and the ability to fly
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Honey
Coiled ringlets fall upon your sweetened nape
delicate frame braced across the dressing table
sensual reflection burns the mirror
into smokey shadows

I sweep aside your autumn tresses
to lay warmed kisses upon your shoulders
and nibble the places beneath your earlobes
those that cause your lissome frame
to arch
in my embrace

a downward glance from your dreamy eyes
at the strong hand that slakes slow across your skin
over your belly
to cover you in heat and melt you
in the places where the honey lays
and waits for me to taste
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ILLUSIONS
A taste of me lonely
weep to me of lasting darkness
down with me there
cold in the earth
as the cere leaves pile above me

a touch of decay
and the sadness forever growing
holding you near
silent in waiting
and the cold winds blow thru me

warmed by the flames
of a love that remembers
deep in my heart
tragic in being
where once was a hero

dear to you I that have died
sad to me you dont remember
lost to you visions and memory
all of us, that which is gone
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STRANGER
Dressed alone in midnight lace
beneath a weeping candle flame
you linger alone for the one who haunts your dreams

Torn from madness, beating heart
lips parted for the silent scream
The kiss instead fills the night
your dream again is broken

Midnight calls the hours witching
gentle winds guide starlight
to your eyes
gentle the madness when he calls
lifted from slumber beneath the guard of angels

Nameless rapture overtakes you
his sad wings against your body brush
broken by his touch
cry inside for one last kiss
your days forever drift
in the torture of his absence
all the long burning
waiting for darkness

And last nights stranger....
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BURN
The bricks on the window ledge are crumbling
and the mortar that served as the bonding has
dissipated throughout the years, having tasted
the wrath of the elements unprotected by glass
gone now for over a decade at least. For over five
hundred years has this window faced the east
and longer still have I been denied the warmth of
the rising sun. Set far away from the progress of
mortal man on this desolate mountainside, I am left alone
without bother in this decaying lair.
A true structure of immortality both these walls and
the phantom who lurks within.
Like the jungle cat now stock still but beneath the skin
each muscle tensed and bristling. Drawing within, I fall
back down into myself, back through the years.
Reaching deeper, further, long past the wicked embers
of my dark gift, to another time, another me.
Projecting into the long lost child I used to be.
Only to witness, only to feel, only to taste
the light of the morning sun. It's fire illuminates
the room even before its searching fingers stretch inside.
Aglow in golden color, every fissure every vein
on the brick is evident, dancing in shadows once
and now released as the dawn gathers momentum.
The effects of the room are alive. I hold the gaze,
pulling my inner strength to keep the moment
but the dawn denies my embrace, I am forced to
withdraw from this memory of light,
for even now...
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TEARS
Beneath a cold eclipse of my darkness
stygian beauty captive here
peel from thee all memories
darken your eyes
and make you love me

In dust and shadows
of forgotten dreams
I'll let you believe
you mean more to me
than the stars in the skies
and all the withered leaves

I'll be the god in your cold light
binding your heart with lies
devil in the doorway
pouring teardrops from your skies

A hero decayed
jewel to your eyes
dripping sadness
like an addiction

A tangle of teardrops
in your cold winter garden
the bloodkiss of roses
the thorns in your eyes
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PRINCESS
The breath of the moon glides on the winds of the night
echoing it's mystic reflection from the panes of the glimmering glass
into the dark of my eyes.
Turning once and peeling my thoughts from the sky back inside
where thoughts of you linger since last we spoke.
At once to dreaming of the pure heaven of your touch,
the sweet taste of your kiss
and the pure innocence in your heart.
You, my dear, an angel of Avalon,
and I purely a fragment of the once Phantom of Babylon.
Ah, but to you only your dark prince
and nothing of the tragic soul that others see.
Your true love blinds you to the distance in me,
the lock unturned that denies the rest of the world.
In our reality,
this dream that we dance,
solely unto ourselves, no barriers exist,
only the open doorways and windows for starlight can be.
I am open to you as you are to me.
Hand in hand and hearts as one.
And bonds of steel and starlight,
a circle of the strongest magic and the purity of love
like milk and honey down from heaven into our souls.
Such that we endure for this love,
such patience for a waiting kiss.
All that we take and all that we create
to call the heart for a promise of loyalty and understanding.
One thousand years in the making
and time has forged the bridge I cross to you.
Though great be the distance
each step is assured and every breath
brings me one day closer
to the beauty that is you.
Listen close my love,
the midnight winds bring my lips to yours.
Beneath the streetlight in the milky Autumn mist.
The one who finds for you all that you have lost,
the one who reveals all the secrets of your dreams.
So taken by the passion in you,
by what you know of being alone
and the way the pictures of the past
fade away from you when we walk together.
By the whispered kiss in your southern tongue
and the solemn grace that is lost in the waves of our dream.
My love for you flows deeper than you know.
Let those lost souls who seek to blind us
and the refuse of sadness that pray for our demise
fall into the webs of their own cold treachery.
Like ignorant children
let them kindle the fires that will eventually consume them
when they play with the flames of our love.
Drink deeply of this dream my dear,
let it fill you with its warmth.

My passion is limitless,

my dreams are endless,

my love for you...

Immortal
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ECHOES
Into the silver realm of dreams
behold the stygian black nightmare
erotic this yearning
undulating gaze
whispered breathless

pry your eyes from under the rose
lipstick petals crushed
moonlight pales the resonance of you
your innocence fades
in shadows deep screams

suffer the lonely days
final shine for winter eyes
in deep blue dreams of May

painted kisses coil in waiting
emptiness bristles beneath my skin
colder still are the feelings fast fading
warmed where illusions begin

a taste of me lonely
swallowed in midnight bliss
the words you whisper
paint for me pictures of your kiss
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DARK PRINCE
deliberate act to bleed my soul
away from shadows secure and dry

revive the dreams forgotten and old
kiss my familiar fears goodbye

prince of my dark nights won't let me win
relentless force breaking logic's plight
immortal whispers haunt me again
negating reasons i have to fight
conquering wings wrap me up and then
erase all that i am out of sight
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THE REMORSELESS KILLER
He stands, back to the wall in the darkness
The obsessive hatred tears through his body
Like a knife turning, twisting, ripping flesh
The skin tightens around his eyes, sweat beading
His teeth clench and grind, like steel claws on slate
Intense emotions well up inside him, like raging fire
Beyond death in a realm the mind cannot describe
Surviving on the crimson liquid satin of mortal blood
Alone in the room, as dark black as blindness
The air thick, heavy, the lingering scent of death
Macabre tendencies arise and breathe
From his mind plagued by tortured souls
Consumed by the cold hand of the dark demonic rule
He exists as a living corpse, dressed in midnight black
From the sanctuary of this temporary safe haven he rests
Till the calling of the midnight hour, when bloodlust hunger prevails
Amid his reign of terror amongst the screams of mortal salvation
His teeth, razor sharp, snow white but stained with blood
No remorse for his actions, no regret; he's the demon prowling
The vampiric predator, lustful thirst for chilled bloodwyne
Crimson tears fall in streams from cold staring, terrified eyes
Pitiful hands rise up to beg, to grab his shirt in hope of respite
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SHAMELESS EXPRESSION
Shameless expression on an emotionless face
A heart as cold as the ice on his face
He walks alone on a never-ending path
To a place that only exists in his empty heart

Pale white hands clasp a slow burning cigarette
Smoke rises into a drifting, swirling cloud
Through eyes that have seen years of death and torture
An expression of hatred held in his tormented stare

Since the time when he was brought over
He has only thought of death
The thirst for blood on his stone cold breath

He's that uneasy feeling while you huddle by the fire
The very definition of fear he's the bloodthirsty vampire
He watches the pulsing of your veins, while licking his lips
His teeth extend; his eyes turn red as your jugular vein rips

Blood drips from the side of his pencil thin mouth
His hunger is quenched as he drops you down
If you are lucky he may decide to bring you across
But like most of his prey you will be a blood drained corpse
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AL LOST LOVE IN THE ENTERNAL NIGHT

On this night that runs on forever, like an endless theatre play
My dark foreboding body stands tall, with my back to the day
For I am the darkness, the shadows and the intense emotion of fear
The lonely immortal sitting alone by the open window, wiping a tear
The skin on my bone china white face, pale as the mists over a grave

For centuries I have lived on in the blind darkness of this eternal night
Dressed in black crushed velvet, the gothic splendour, a ghost to the light
Blood is my hunger, my ravenous greed, hunting like a beast for my next feed
I sleep silently by day, banished from the sun for all eternity, lost in the sands of time
Hunting by night in the realm of mortal man, yet no punishment for my murderous crime.

A feeling of sadness burns deep within me, of the love I lost when hell consumed me
A lady, my wife, dressed in fine white silken clothes; her face so beautiful, like that of a rose
My heart and soul was so full of love for her; we were never apart; we were true lovers forever
On one stormy, wintry Victorian night, my life was destroyed at the stoke of midnight
A mysterious woman stood in the shadows, with the face of eternal youth lit by the pale moonlight
I was entranced by the stare of her blood red eyes; she descended upon me and silenced my cries
Her stone cold hands gripped me round my neck as she fed and drained the lifeblood from my veins
The last I saw of my wife was her slain bloody corpse on my bed; I can still feel the unbearable pain

Though this dark curse upon me, summons me to hunt and feed from the blood of man all my life
Forever I solemnly swear that I will never take that sacred emotion of love from a man and his wife.
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THE HIGHWAY MAN

The rain lashes against the window
Of my horse-drawn stagecoach
Lightening flashes so bright
It fills the night-sky with fire
Each crash of thunder makes
My heart beat ever faster

I travel at speed through the night
The wheels splash though the puddles
I can hear the wood creak as it stresses
The horses scream out in a hellish cry

For ahead on the horizon
A ghostly silhouette stands
As the coach draws nearer
My fear increases

The stagecoach comes to a halt
The horses rise to their hind legs
I catch the glimmer of two pistols
And a skeletal face from hell

I hear the almighty crack of two gunshots
As the coach driver falls to the ground
The poor man lies dead, his chest torn open
At the feet of this remorseless highwayman

My heart beats at such a rate
I struggle for my own breath
As the highwayman nears
I feel so close to death

He looks at me with a glint in his eye
His face that of a deathly white skull
He pulls me from out of the stagecoach
Into the lashing cold rain, with guns held high

As I stare into the darkness of his eyes
My fear increases, I'm afraid to die
His skinless hand grips my chest
As his canine teeth pierce my neck

I can feel the life force drain from me
Rain diluted blood drips down his face
The eerie night fills with his hellish laugh
As this demon creature steals my mortality

Expecting imminent death to follow shortly
I am surprised to feel strength within me
I stand tall in the cold midnight rain
A lust for blood courses through my body

For this demon of the night on his ghostly steed
In the iridescent glow of the full moon at midnight
Brought my mortal body across to his realm of dark
For eternity transformed me to a bloodthirsty vampire
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THE VAMPIRE
T he eternal darkness
H unger for blood
E vil shall live, breath, reap death

V ictims drop as lifeless corpses
A midst the murderous vampire realm
M oonlight glows in a black death sky
P erfect killers, no fear, not shy
I ndepenent of any god or devil
R emorseless existence
E ntertained by the fear of mortals
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STARE INTO MY DARKNESS
Like swirling smoke drifting through your open window
My shadow creeping across the wall lit by candle flicker
I erotically run my hand across your breath-risen breasts
Your pulse races flowing blood quickly through your veins

My cold lips embrace your neck
My teeth extend in the cool night air
Sucking your blood, deep and sensuously
Feeding my utmost pleasurable desire

Stare deep into my darkness
See your fear reflected in my eyes
Watch the blood that drips from my teeth
Deep red, the taste so divine on my tongue

I leave you now to your eternal sleep
As I disappear into the night
Till morning comes and I rest in peace
And await another night of murderous flight.

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