Note to reader : This is f/f pairing. Please read at your own discretion.

Due to popular demand, I am posting the third and final poem in the
series.  WARNING:  This poem includes reference to a romantic
relationship between two females.  If this is not something you don't
wish to read about, please delete now.  I don't want to offend anyone.

~Lies



Part III  In the End, We Are All Prey


She reaches out to me from the darkness
Drawing me from a sound sleep
I feel death-cool fingers
Dancing on my warm flesh
I search the room with my gaze
Only to realize that I am alone
I try to go back to sleep
But her quiet voice calls me
Whispering in my ear
I know she is gone
But still she remains
The guilt washes over me now
Guilt for her death
Guilt for my life
She chose to do it
But I didn't try to stop her
Gentle whispers in my ear
And cool fingers on my brow
Clear my mind of thought
She has forgiven me
I must forgive myself
Cool fingers gently undress me
Reminding me of my own touch
Before my conversion to this life
Changed by our actions
And her death in my arms
Her phantom hands press me to the bed
I am still her posession
Regardless of the fact
That she is not alive
My mind goes back to that night
I had stalked her for weeks
My perfect victim
Or so I thought
I had no idea then
Just how wrong I was
I watched her sleep
Longing to consume her
Body and Soul
But it was she who consumed me
Devouring my Spirit with her eyes
She changed me that night
Turning cold flesh
To beautiful life
But she was changed in the process
And neither of us recovered
As I grew warmer
She grew cold
The fire of her Spirit
Lived within me now
But she retained the fire in her eyes
She became something new
Not Death as I had been
But, yet, not alive
Her eyes glowed with a fire
Never seen in the living
Her body was no longer necessary
So she cast it off
Like an old garment
But she did not leave me
She is here still
Neither of us understood
Our new existance
How it became
Or what it meant
But we explored together
We balanced each other
She taught me to enjoy
The confines of the flesh
As she learned to spread her wings
And fly
She traveled the night
Exploring the world
For others like us
Returning with the dawn
To tell me what she'd found
Then the day came
She had not returned
As the sun rose high
I feared for her safety
As the days went by
Months had passed
I woke from strange dreams
To find green eyes burning into my soul
She had returned
My joy at her presence
Overwhelmed my anger
As her cool hands
Reminded me again and again
Of the pleasures of the flesh
She left me again
And she often does
Staying away for weeks at a time
The pain of her absence
Is almost enough to make me leave
But I stay
Knowing she will return
With tales to tell
And pleasured to share
So I wait
I have grown older
As those of flesh are known to do
And my body has changed
Hair gone grey, flesh gone soft
But she doesn't mind
For all these years
I have come to enjoy mortality
Having once been Death
I find myself facing it
As the inevitable end
But still, there's no fear
For I will cast off this body
And join her
In her adventures
And pleasures forever

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