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Hidden From Daylight By Nathaniel Goldberg Copyright 2000 Nathaniel Goldberg

A poem about a vampire at night.

Under the cover of darkness I emerge like a chrysalis from its cocoon. I have hidden the many long hours of daylight waiting for the night to come and once again slip to my beauty's side. I watch her perfect teeth move through laughter, The smoothness of the veins along her neck pulse as my teeth dig in reopening two small holes in her flesh. She speaks to me in whispers of times gone by when she was young and innocent, while I drink of her life until her body goes limp when breath comes deep and dreams come soft.