Poetry through the Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fingers grasping
the top of the world,
I jump over,
weakened by sorrow.
Though I tell myself
to keep fighting,
I feel faint and
flushed with sickness.
He stares at me
from a doorway,
tipping his hat
‘til I am shaken.
Behind the curtain
lie shadows
of my own death
reflected in your eyes.
Monsters hide
inside and share
our darkest secrets,
though we no longer
see them and believe
that we are free.
I bring sunshine
to feed
your darkest hunger.
Behold a single rose
upon the door,
its scent filled with memory.
Music invites me in,
act one closing
but much still ahead.
Champagne and hope
climb the stairs,
calling out your name.
Candles flicker,
the dream light fading,
shivering as it slips away.
Your face lies
in shades of gray
upon my pillow,
and grief
fills my heart
where love once lived.
Petals still moist,
the music echoes
in my ears.
Flames of passion
burn my soul,
now lost forever.
if love is obsession
aren’t we merely rodents
lusting after cheese
* * *
If everybody
loved me
it would be,
well,
odd,
potentially dangerous,
and
would take
all the fun
out of feeling
unwanted
and
invisible.
And who
would want that?
Lurking in the shadows,
the creature in you haunts me.
Running on instinct,
the moon guards my passion.
Drawn by the tides,
two dark sides meet,
the animal becoming
less frightening in the light.
Love reeks
of all things dank and dangerous.
I must let go,
take a chance on being bitten.
one last time
he calls her name
then returns to
what he was before
a soulless bastard
what they all are
once we give
our love away
* * *
Something wrong upon awakening.
The warm boy missing,
kidnapped perhaps
by his deepest emotion,
frightened perhaps by his soul.
She is aware of nothing
but the afterglow.
The girl
sneaks out a window
to meet her love.
A woman,
by the front door
she returns,
feeling safe for a moment,
then sparks light the atmosphere
as the boy crosses over.
A man takes his place,
filled with passion,
but devoid of kindness.
Emptied of all
that made him a man.