Always moving like the waves within me,

shrinking like the urges I’ve denied.

The pain satisfies a hunger to rule,

Drawn to the aura that surrounds you,

unfamiliar in the golden light.

My teeth sink for a taste to feel a burst of life,

fingers graze the velvet armor over your chest like a tidal wave.

The hue of the sky is replaced with piercing blue eyes,

sinking deeper and washing away your glow.

The surface was out out of reach before you realized.

I rise over you and admire my prey,

sallow, withered, doused under my water’s weight.

I can nurse you back, but you know this means the end.

The blood from our pact will be too thick to wade through

We’ll trudge to land covered in gore and I’ll collapse onto you.

You know you’ll never wash me off,

But you can’t help dipping your toes every once in awhile.

Like a child approaching the vast depth before them,