Ode to Vampire

In another time, I might have been yours.

A breath, a bite, a heartbeat,

I would have given you my last.

Somewhere else, another place, in a different world,

We may have loved.

You could have had all of me.

You would have drank me, tasted me, possessed me.

Here and now, I cannot touch you or feel you,

Yet you still drain me.

How do you consume me, my thoughts, my dreams,

My soul?

Today I am haunted by your shadows, your suggestions,

The ghosts of possibilities.

Like the demon dogs you would send to corner me,

Regrets of yesterdays nip at my heels.

I am tormented,

Taunted by your unattainable kiss.

I reach for you, I seek you, I summon you,

I cannot have you.

I am alone, with only my reflection.

In another life,

You and I would have been eternal.