Hell With You All

A thousand blank faces
All muttering trivialities
All chattering gaily
All incoherently speaking to the other

I clap my hands over my ears
Trying to mute the noise
Rejecting all the nonsense
Being spat out by the bedeviled tongues

Shut up you imbeciles
These ears are beaten up
It is way fed up already
With your nonsensical talk

Can’t you see it bleeding
From putting up with you all
Saying how I should do this
Telling me how I ought to live

Did you think I would care
To your unsolicited concerns
Did you think I would bleed
For your ambiguous opinion

To hell with you all
This life is mine alone
I’d live the way I want it
Risking my all ‘till no more

Death, Life and I

I was made to choose
Between life and death
My mind reeled in
My heart throbbed fast

I took a view of life
It breathes new things
Fresh as an open wound
In a hurting human

I took a view of death
It murders everything
Cold as a rotted flesh
In an unfeeling human

Life tried to entice me
With its rousing joys and pains
Death tried to haggle
With its haunting numbness

It was such a thrill
To behold this comedy
An ensuing struggle of possession
For this pathetically hapless soul

My turn in this charade came
“You’ve lost me forever,
O sweet innocent Life,
I’ve long surrendered to Death”

Vampire Lestat

Where oh where is my beloved?
Oh where are you Lestat?
I called out your name yonder
But your voice I hear not

Where oh where is my beloved?
Oh where are you Lestat?
I searched the fields undaunted
But your face I see not


Where oh where is my beloved?
Oh where are you Lestat?
I trudged in the winter chill
But your warmth I feel not

Where oh where is my beloved?
Oh where are you Lestat?
I cry out to the world in vain
But your presence I sense not

Where oh where is my beloved?
Oh where are you Lestat?
The angel of death has claimed you
But your love remains here still