Me Reading Exsanguis - Sleeping Beauty was a Vampire
Exsanguis
when I first beheld
your Gothic beauty
black hair shimmered
like a raven's wing
in moonlight
your ivory skin
waxed lucent
as if the moon herself
were trapped beneath
its pallid nakedness
your lips bled
a vivid red
like petals fallen
from the funerary rose
that lay across your breast
I kissed their sleeping supplication
awakening nocturnal eyes
whirlpools of endless night
spun from the depths of Lethe
to bestow hypnotic peace
onyx windows of propitiation
concealing a sepulcher of souls
thus I was benighted
and seduction followed
as we made unhallowed love
droplets of profane pleasure
flowed into rivers of rapture
denying fatal interment
then you quickened me
with unholy addiction
and brought forth
this demon of perdition
I am the chosen convert
our bloods burn as one
my will is forsaken
I am betrothed to hunger
for the forbidden fruits
of your affection
your lover
your savior
crying at your feet
for his eternal rest
© WFS 2001