I used to crave the night
and her cloaking blackness,
when I didn’t have to hide
my true nature, my thirst.
I could slither in the shadows,
seek my prey,
be the solitary predator
I kept locked away from the sun.
I could drink until the strength
filled me again.
I
was
invincible.
But without you
hunting by my side,
the night has become my enemy.
It stretches too long
without your heartbeat
to fill the silence
of my own empty chest.
I
am
nothing.
Not man.
Not vampire.
Not alive, not dead.
Nothing.
I don’t know where you’ve gone.
The place where you slept beside me,
where you loved me,
no longer holds your scent,
as if you never existed,
but I know you did.
My mind knows you did.
My body knows you did.
My heart knows you did,
and it can never forget
the way you completed me.
~Drake
and her cloaking blackness,
when I didn’t have to hide
my true nature, my thirst.
I could slither in the shadows,
seek my prey,
be the solitary predator
I kept locked away from the sun.
I could drink until the strength
filled me again.
I
was
invincible.
But without you
hunting by my side,
the night has become my enemy.
It stretches too long
without your heartbeat
to fill the silence
of my own empty chest.
I
am
nothing.
Not man.
Not vampire.
Not alive, not dead.
Nothing.
I don’t know where you’ve gone.
The place where you slept beside me,
where you loved me,
no longer holds your scent,
as if you never existed,
but I know you did.
My mind knows you did.
My body knows you did.
My heart knows you did,
and it can never forget
the way you completed me.
~Drake