You are my savior and my killer,

bandaging up my wrist

only to scrape your fangs against my neck.

 

Stop teasing me

and drain me of this life

I do not want.

 

Neither of us can give the other

what they crave.

I have no desire to live forever

even if it’s with you.

I can’t be whoever it is you see

when you look at me.

 

I won’t live for you.

You won’t take my life.

We dance alone together.

 

We find brief comfort in each other’s arms

but not enough to dispel our mutual darkness.