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N O T H I N G
Piteous
Nameless neighbor,
Accursed wastrel, who
Like the uncanny vixen
Lanky, skulks unseen the
Unkempt periphery of settled life.
Enfant terrible,
Spectral, savaged gelding,
Long ago infected
With a loathsome lineage of bite and night
Disconsolate, despised
A life two-centuries lifeless.
I mourn for you
Unwelcome orphan
Who like an ancient,
Chthonic goddess,
Was cast away
Mutilated, damaged always,
Forever in famine -- never satiated,
Left ravening for floods of blood
To fill her toothy maw
And stain rapacious claws.
Friendless, eternally alone
In dark and damp.
Never will your lips as lover
Ignite desire in another.
No one wants
Your jagged kiss
To rip into their naked neck,
Nor your pointed, knife-tip tongue
To lap the branching spates of blood
Cascading from their claw-torn corpse.
An awful chain of sunless days
Forced by fate
To slake a bestial thirst among
The sun-soaked masses.
But ever apart
In desolate, soul-crushing solitude.
And brilliant streams of rust-red blood
Impart no cheer, despite their hue.
Oblivion of memory
Erodes away humanity
Till nothing,
. . . just a wraith remains.
