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Vampire of the city.
Listening to church bells peel
Thinking upon how glib they sound
So before taking flight into the night
A gobbet he spits to the ground.
Burning with unquenchable thirst
The breath of life excites his appetite
This peripheral creature to all that exists
A shadowing silhouette in the moonlight.
One among the throng of this city
She of an ancient profession
From a cafe window staring out
Into the abyss of human emotion.
Squeezing her lips
On the coffee cup rim
She leaves an imprint
Of a smile in crimson.
Walking by flying gargoyle crackheads
Below swaggering pigeon valentinos
Amorous with rooftop courtship
Oblivious to what lurks in shadows.
A chill intense swirls about
Biting her bare arms and legs
Instinctual unease tells her to flee.
From the thickening darkness.
From breath of shadows
Sweat clings from fear
Such a chill in exhalation
To Freeze a tear.
Ripped from her mind suddenly
The very thought of fear
As thrust out a beastly hand
Clamps shut her trachea.
Throat erupts with arterial spray
As teeth cut short a cry
A hand punches through to her heart
Massaged till death's sigh.
Beyond now stare unblinking eyes
A reflected moon cut off to within
Appetence sated the predator preens
Licking at it's pale blood spattered skin.
With a great scooped woosh of air
The vampire ascends into the evening sky
A victim of the city left behind
Is just another lost soul bled dry
Curtains sway to a sleeping unease
While a soul slumbers in dreams
A figure revealed at the window perched
Concerned with her fears it seems.
Shadowy fingers stroke her pain
Worming into her ears
Burrowing deep to a mind
Where live past nightmares.
Feverish hands of a dark desire
About her body explore
To the ceiling stare swollen eyes
Passed the face of her father.
Piercing this perverted phantasma
A voice calls from inside her head
She rises through her fathers image
Evaporating as she leaves the bed.
Drawn toward this sirens call
Through ear oppressing silence
Strangely allayed her shame and fear
A lifted weight from her conscience.
Under a street lamp she pauses
Within an island of light
A blanket of mist around her whirls
Quickening and thickening with might.
Her outline fades till all is engulfed
Within a fog like cocoon
Out from the dark the vampire steps
Knowing a rebirth to be soon.
From a screaming projection
Comes all from within
As fallen to the ground
Lays now empty skin.
As the mist melts a form emerges
With stuttering steps of one new born
Observed she is with a smile
As her senses study a body transformed
As in a ballet she moves in her new form
Graceful in a rapture of release
And with a snap wings unfold
Giving flight to her found peace.
The vampire holds out upon his hand
Her heart she knows she has lost
For without pain will never return
A price worthy of such a loss.
Thinking upon how glib they sound
So before taking flight into the night
A gobbet he spits to the ground.
Burning with unquenchable thirst
The breath of life excites his appetite
This peripheral creature to all that exists
A shadowing silhouette in the moonlight.
One among the throng of this city
She of an ancient profession
From a cafe window staring out
Into the abyss of human emotion.
Squeezing her lips
On the coffee cup rim
She leaves an imprint
Of a smile in crimson.
Walking by flying gargoyle crackheads
Below swaggering pigeon valentinos
Amorous with rooftop courtship
Oblivious to what lurks in shadows.
A chill intense swirls about
Biting her bare arms and legs
Instinctual unease tells her to flee.
From the thickening darkness.
From breath of shadows
Sweat clings from fear
Such a chill in exhalation
To Freeze a tear.
Ripped from her mind suddenly
The very thought of fear
As thrust out a beastly hand
Clamps shut her trachea.
Throat erupts with arterial spray
As teeth cut short a cry
A hand punches through to her heart
Massaged till death's sigh.
Beyond now stare unblinking eyes
A reflected moon cut off to within
Appetence sated the predator preens
Licking at it's pale blood spattered skin.
With a great scooped woosh of air
The vampire ascends into the evening sky
A victim of the city left behind
Is just another lost soul bled dry
Curtains sway to a sleeping unease
While a soul slumbers in dreams
A figure revealed at the window perched
Concerned with her fears it seems.
Shadowy fingers stroke her pain
Worming into her ears
Burrowing deep to a mind
Where live past nightmares.
Feverish hands of a dark desire
About her body explore
To the ceiling stare swollen eyes
Passed the face of her father.
Piercing this perverted phantasma
A voice calls from inside her head
She rises through her fathers image
Evaporating as she leaves the bed.
Drawn toward this sirens call
Through ear oppressing silence
Strangely allayed her shame and fear
A lifted weight from her conscience.
Under a street lamp she pauses
Within an island of light
A blanket of mist around her whirls
Quickening and thickening with might.
Her outline fades till all is engulfed
Within a fog like cocoon
Out from the dark the vampire steps
Knowing a rebirth to be soon.
From a screaming projection
Comes all from within
As fallen to the ground
Lays now empty skin.
As the mist melts a form emerges
With stuttering steps of one new born
Observed she is with a smile
As her senses study a body transformed
As in a ballet she moves in her new form
Graceful in a rapture of release
And with a snap wings unfold
Giving flight to her found peace.
The vampire holds out upon his hand
Her heart she knows she has lost
For without pain will never return
A price worthy of such a loss.
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Vampire of the city.
Vampire of the city.