Dead Sentences

The Vampire

Like a vampire in the night

you suck my blood

my veins are tight

you scare me really

heck, you do

but once or twice

I thought I knew you.

What keeps me with you

is not the night- it's the day

and I really hope you won't stay this way.

I want to be with you

but I don't know how to cope

with your hands around my throat

squeezing like a tight rope.

I wish you were the person

you used to be

I wish it could always

be you and me.