Marks across her eyes
She takes the shadows from the corners
Sucks the feeling from my lies
And steals the morning from the dawn
Dancing in the dark
With a deadly sort of manner
Wilted flowers on the mantle
And the scent of something wrong
Lips that never utter
Though they faintly mouth my name
As my heart begins to stutter
And the silence fairly screams
Skin as soft as satin
As her arms embrace me gently
In an ancient form of Latin
Voices echo in my dreams
Life and love and laughter
Shrink away within her presence
As she leads the steps on quicker
‘Till the movements stir the leaves
Out into the courtyard
And I cannot pull to stop her
Underneath the waning moonlight
Falling slowly through the eaves
When did we begin
My memories are dull and faded
They betray the story’s ending
Though I cannot see the start
Hand in hand she takes me
So much further down the spiral
And, in tempo, I can feel it
It’s the rhythm of my heart
Earth below my feet
These empty hollows in the mist
Here as she slows the spinning, calmly
Pulls my head against her breast
Sounds are far away now
And the light has made it’s exit
Her lips–so cold and timeless
As I taste the kiss of death
vampireweather 
I wonder if
You ever doubt
The way I feel
And if it’s real
I wonder if
You think there’s a time
That you are not on my mind
I hope you know
That my love
Hasn’t changed
It remains the same
I hope you know
That every moment
Of each day
On my mind of course you stay
wow this gave me chills, I love it 😀
Thank you! 🙂
The opening paragraph is pure greatness! I envy it! 🙂
Thank you for the wonderful comment! I appreciate that coming from someone with your skills 🙂
I almost don’t want to like this….your death is something I deff do not want…but very magical with your words, like always.
Death is but a walk with an old friend, ending in a destination that we have pursued since birth. A completion. A rest. I pity any immortal. 🙂
Stark imagery – fits the topic… Gave me shivers too. Nicely done, VW!
Thank you, Betty. A kiss we most often wish to avoid 🙂
Wow! Just a stunning piece! I loved your first stanza, it captivated me from the beginning. Wonderful weaving of words 🙂
Thank you so much Angela! Good to see you again 🙂
You writing is always so right! Natural and wonderful. Even the irregular use of rhymes work so well as the rhymes you chose are natural and fit in so well that we don’t miss the non-rhymes. This is very well done!
Thank you, my friend. Good to see you again
Love the poem a joy
read aloud – reads
like a song. Reminds
me of the Dark Mother
a deity I imagine in my
stories – she/he – it –
is an androgenous
being who embodies
both nature and Death
esp – the need for
Death in sustaining
life. With our first
breath we sign a
contract. One that
ends in the ultimate
sacrifice. Her eternal
imbrace, Is the price
we pay for entering
this world.
We stare into the emptness
and fall beneath the gate –
Circling the Nexus in a
feavered dance with
fate . . .
Dan Fogelberg’s
song, Nexus. You
should hear it. It’s
one of my favorites.
I am going to check out that song. Thank you! I always love finding music and associating it with poetry. Music is what led me to love poetry like I do. Thank you for the epic comment!
Thank you for
the epic poem.
🙂
A truly excellent piece of poetry Vampire Weather and you have certainly captured the mood with this one 🙂 Well done my wonderful friend I think that this one is most definitely amongst your finest efforts 🙂
Androgoth
Thank you, androgoth. Death is always an inspiring subject, which you know all too well since you are the master of the gothic darkness around here 🙂
This is captivating, eerily so, and who’s making who look bad now! 🙂 Another amazing piece of work, VW! 🙂
Well, it’s certainly not up to your standards, but I suppose it will have to do until I get better 🙂
Thank you!
You are one of my favorites, who I have learned from…I truly love your writing! Have a wonderful Friday! 🙂
Thank you very much. That is a cherished compliment
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Thank you very much, my friend! Good to see you again
VW,
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for painting such a vivid and dare I say, sensual picture…
You dare say that 😉
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment!