The Viscious

As I bask in the moonlight, I see your face

As I close my eyes and soak in the stars

The thought of you makes e shiver, the chills

Trickle down my neck and grip my spine in a crushing embrace

Your smile, cool calculating, seemingly innocent

 

Yes, that smile, how could I have known what lurked

Dangerously close to me was not an innocent

But a predator. All fangs, claws attitude and appetite

Waiting to devour me, my hopes, my plans, my night

How could I have known, looking into your eyes, into nothing?

 

Profound, dark, cold, empty, fertile, nothing

Infected with greed, with beauty, with hidden scars

Of those before me who have succumbed to your

Untraceable past. I know you. I do know you.

 

I know you cry out for me in the darkest

night hours.  I know you yearn for me with a burning

Desire that melts away all your other thoughts in

Its searing, nuclear heat. I know the horrors of

love unrequited, jealousy, envy, sorrow, and despair

 

A web of pain, tearing away, revealing a maniacal joy, disturbingly powerful

Frenzied, panicked elation that spirals out of control, finally

I know you will seek, so shall I hide the emotions that gorge you

Yet I still stand in silence, in solitude, stoically awaiting, basking in the moonlight

Until you reach me, and feast.

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