As Silent As Dracula

As Silent As Dracula

You could make every night feel like Halloween.
Your footsteps as silent as Dracula,
you try to escape in the darkness...
but I can feel you there.

You walk around like a symphony without words...
Your eyes are a sweet melody,
just like that song we once heard.

That song I've memorized,
that prides itself as a broken record,
skipping with every beat of my heart.
That song I can play with my eyes closed,
closed as to shut away the tears.
That song with the made-up title, one syllable,
which now remains as my only question for you......"why?"

You could be my Edward, my Jack,
filling my days with romantic nonsense,
but your heart is as black as your lungs,
and you pretend that my voice is just another one of your
chronic noise disturbances.

Fill the room with smoke so I can't see you
staring back at me.

You play the keys to my heart
,but you play them like a child...
banging on that great instrument with such might,
as if to break it into tiny pieces,
never to be fixed again.

Hanging and lurking around every corner,
you shock and awe my heart.
Dodging me pleases your wicked spirit.
I didn't know someone else's pain
could give you such comfort.

I used to love the color black,
until you gave it a bad name.
You wore it out, just like my soul,
everytime you shun me.

Your presence has enough power
to shake my world.
Walking tall above me, you pretend to be someone else...
But at the end of the day,
you're just as short and stubby as
yesterday's dried up cigarette.



(Originally posted on November 24, 2007, @ darkalchemystudios.deviantart.com)


© Caitlin Blair Cogar