VAMPIRE

Written October 2023

Notes: N/A

Like bats, we circle each other in red
In shadow, dripping blood and sparkling tears,
Prancing feet in black lace tight skirts,
We think of ourselves as cutthroat
We imagine gore and slashed tendons,
Open wrists and romantic mouths,
Dark and misunderstood–
The night is so young.

We connect with pin-pricked necks,
like moonlight we hang over the churchtops and feel as if we will live forever
We dedicate ourselves to the curved knives and the beatings
Scary-eyed catthings, freaks trapped in movie screens,
Pulled-apart and fake,
We put value in our bloodstains.

Like ravens, overdramatic and unhealthy,
Seen and stoned,
Full of vitriol, crawling through our caves,
Spitting difference through cold comments,
We want, so much, to be known and not destroyed,
Valued for our broken minds,
Feared and loved.