"I love you", I told you, but with my teeth,

Craving to bite you, while you struggle beneath

Me - to keep me from tearing and eating your flesh.

Simply, I must gut you when you're still fresh.

Your cries will anoint me as I tug your teeth,

I make a necklace from them, so you'll be mine to keep.

Ascending from this meal, I'll hear you utter about a deal,

To weave immortal life into your lungs, to heal

Those that I've shred.

"I love you ravenously", I warned you before.

Yet you begged and begged for more.

You got what you wished for, so why do you complain?

Am I supposed to believe that all your begging was in vain?

I drank your blood and consumed your tongue

No one can part us. Now, we are one.

-Vampire

Daphne

Running like prey, I jumped and I screamed.

The god behind me was almost near.

The threats of what he would do to me, I feared.

(Didn't ask for this attention

Was this all for some petty vengeance?)

I prayed, and I begged, "Was it my beauty he was after?"

All the while, I heard the gods' never-ending laughter.

Cried until my father saw reason and heard what I pleaded.

"Change my body so that it won't be defiled.

Change my appearance so that I can still be mine."

Grew my hair into flowers, my arms into twigs.

Yet when he reached me - kissed me he did.

Tried to escape, but my legs caught roots.

Imprisoned now, I am the fool.