Vampire Wolf  
 
i sigh... 
glimmers a tear in my eye 
i breathe... 
watch the leaves fall from the tree 
i fade... 
breathless and faint from your view 
i kneel... 
clutching my belly, fetal and feral 
i snarl 
unrecognizable and mutated 
i rip 
into your soft underbelly with my fangs 
i lick 
my face 
i howl 
at the picture staring back in cobwebs 
i see 
in the cracked, grimy mirror 
i cringe 
leap through the air 
i impale 
myself on the truth 
i bleed 
and the venom leaks out 
i live 
for a moment, smile weakly and die 
i look tenderly 
into your empty, dead gaze 
i .... i .... i die 
of a broken heart
 
Sherry Gilles ©1998