Immortal Kiss

Tonight's a busy one for me, I'm either gaming (playing an Ork Face in Shadowrun for those of you that follow such things... everyone else, don't worry it's a roleplaying thing) or writing short stories for a couple of anthologies I want to send stories to.

So in the grand tradition of UK children's television programme Blue Peter, 'here's something I prepared earlier' (did anyone actually believe that the presenter had had anything to do with preparing it?)

This is a vampire poem I wrote a long time ago (it's at least fifteen years old, probably older) and I've never done anything with. I don't consider myself to be much of a poet but I think it's okay.

Enjoy and I'll try to put together something more substantial tomorrow.

Immortal Kiss

I watch you across the room

Your face so filled with shade

Perfect, flawless

You’re everything man made

I watch you light a cigarette

Obscures your form in gloom

Vulnerable yet predatory

Freshly risen from your tomb

Come to me, I beseech you

Lead me from this shallow light

Ply my neck with tender kisses

Take me from this pallid life

Wrap me in honeyed shadow

To wash me quite away

Too cold to be living

Too fragile to flee the day

I watch you with a soft gaze

Awaiting your cool kiss

Like a wilting flower

Broken by the coldest mist

My heart beats too loudly

A loud monotone drum

That only knows one tune

And yet remains so numb

Enshroud me, rise above

I long for winter’s touch

To still this too warm flesh

That promises too much

For my tears are bloody

I hunger for sweet rest

To hide amongst my dreams

Within your cold caress

The world has worn shallow

Diseased, broken and thin

I’m lost within this storm

Please won’t you take me in?

I’m fallen, upon my knees

Give me to eternity

Break my limbs, set me free

Blind my eyes to help me see

The night’s frozen beauty

Framed in crystal lines

Turning all to statues

Into still life most divine

Drink of me, all bloody

Swallow down my life

Drown me in your kiss

Help me see your light