Vampire's Last Meal

Your words swirled round like sensuous dancers

Whispering promises, requesting no answers

Your eyes full of mischief, your hands always seeking

Who knew you would leave my eyes sad and leaking

Broken mirror--pieces spread out on the floor

Fallen, shattered, scattered with the slamming of the door

Reflecting different aspects of what we had before

Searing pain where shards pierced my heart's core

Sweet romance followed by that breaking up ordeal

Stole my lifeblood like a vampire’s last meal

My belief in romance and in myself was blown apart

And a piece of my soul seeped out of my broken heart

Wicked Claws

I know you’re angry, and I know you’re feeling sad

Things transpired lately have ruined what we had

But I was not alone during all that we went through

On that troubled road, I walked along with you

So I won’t apologize nor accept your misplaced blame

Nor will I argue and defend-- for what would be the aim?

I don’t like this animosity: would rather part as friends

But that can only happen if you see things through my lens

So set aside your prejudice; don’t build it to a cause

Put away your eyeteeth and sheath your wicked claws

Instead recall the good times and how love came to be

Just as I’ll remember, all you have meant to me

Even nations should have learned down the ages and the years

That warring with another never assuaged bitter tears

Nor does war bring closure, or bring our hearts relief

Instead it seeds the soil for further war and grief

So set aside your prejudice; don’t build it to a cause

Put away your eyeteeth and sheath your wicked claws

We called it Love

We were mere sparks in a vast expanse

Much smaller than stars

Light-years beyond Mars

Each journeying alone

Routes uncharted, unknown

Until fate interjected

And our paths intersected

The result unexpected

A fusion of an unusual kind

A bonding of body, soul and mind

And we called it Love

For eons we travelled together

Joined by that insoluble tether

We had one another

Soul mates and lovers

Until creation was rent and rang

With the explosion of the Big Bang

The Universe was formed

On God’s Monday morn

But we were blown apart

Broken spirits, broken heart

Perhaps fate heard as we keened

Because soon it intervened

Our souls fell to Earth

In separate human birth

We learned to live in temporal time

Each day a struggle and climb

We journeyed, each alone

Routes uncharted, unknown

Until fate interjected

And our paths intersected

The result unexpected

A fusion of an unusual kind

A bonding of body, soul and mind

And we called it Love