The Vampire's victim

She walks through the night
Stalking him
He looks behind and sees her
She smiles, and he falters
She draws closer
Her eyes burn in her skull
Piercing him through

Her arm snakes out
And loops around him
Her lips caress his face,
His neck
She bares her teeth
Two incisors slide out
She administers a vampire's kiss

The man sighs
Not yet aware of his fate
She draws in the first mouthful
Of his hot life force
It rushes through her
Like liquid fire
Like molten love

She draws back a moment
A scarlet drop slides over her lips
The man sees
And horror fills his eyes
The stories his mother told him
Of monsters and ghouls
Come flooding back

She feels him stiffen
And tightens her grip
With one hand
She presses him to her
And the other muffles his screams
Checking they are alone still
She returns to her meal

As his life blood runs out
The man pales
He no longer resites
But lolls back in her embrace
She draws mouthful after mouthful
Feeling the fire it lights in her veins
Feeling the joy, the ecstasy

She feels his heartbeat
As it quickens
Fluttering in his chest
She draws deep a final time
And lets him slide out of her arms
He lies there, white as a sheet
Not dead yet
But no longer fully alive

She drops down beside him
And kisses him softly
Her brother
Her lover
Her victim
Before rising once more
And disappearing into the night.