Vampire Poem by Rebecca Marie Parkinson

There is strength in this heart
And beauty in this form
A gaze to break apart
Any attacker or lover
Yes, I am the lover
I attack this doll with love
Embrace and with kisses smother
Her and steal her life and breath

A lover and a thief
My job and purpose in this scheme
Blood spilling over my teeth
Your life fuelling my existence
Purity feeds shadows and shame
Innocence and trust torment me
The whispers of my name
From your beauteous lips intoxicate

This cruelty and killing every night
Fills me with savage joy and anger
It’s a drug that takes me in body and mind
Soaring to the greatest height
But always there is this hunger
Ravaging my insides and torturing my soul
A raging thirst for the younger
And the stronger, a yearning for battle

Or is it a yearning for love?
To be loved and not abhorred by all who see
For just one person to live and say
Say my name out loud and clear
For lords mercy grant me this gift
My salvation and soul for repentance
A little lover who will lift
Like the holy bread the devils child