Patiently

Patiently, she waited for her lover.
Waited for the night to come,
For the whisper of the wind,
The touch of his hands.

Finally, long after the sun
Cast shadows upon the ground.
Long after the darkness surrounded her,
He came from the shadows
Dressed in black, and cloaked in passion.

He lifted her hand and kissed hello.
Her breath catching somewhere
Between her stomach and her heart.

He traced his fingers along her skin,
Whispered the words she'd longed to hear.
Nibbled slightly on her lip when they kissed.

Here in her arms he was no longer hunted.
In her embrace he was safe from the haunting horror.
The pale despair that had become his life.

Darkness clouded in desire.

As the night wore on, his lust grew,
The shadows of his eyes filled with longing.

And she would not stop his nature.
Love was only the time she gave him.

And as that embrace became his,
He drank of her life,
She gave to him her bloodied soul,
So for one more night, he might live on.

She was drowning in painful pleasure,
Lost in the depths of his hunger,
Resting her heart in his hand,
Her soul bare, her life pure.
A surrender, true and willing.

Barely sated, he pressed his lips to hers,
And folded her hands to her sides.

She watched dazed, stunned,
As he carried the night on wings of flight
Out into the mists behind him.

The promise of one more night
Clinging to the morning,

Like the tears that clung to her cheeks...