Kiss Before
the Grave
She loved him too well to let him live.
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She loved him too well to let him live.
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She sits at the edge of his bed. The candles have burned low. He is still warm, still breathing, still hers — for now.
I watched you in the candle rain
Warm blood beneath your fragile skin
You smiled as if I could be saved
As if the beast would not begin
Your hands were light upon my face
You called me something close to pure
But I have worn too many graves
To think that love could be the cure
Every night I hear your heartbeat
Like a hymn beneath the floor
And the hunger claws inside me
Begging me for more
So kiss me before the grave
Before my mouth becomes your end
Before these fangs choose hunger
Over lover, over friend
I would rather break your heart
Than drink the life behind your eyes
If I cannot keep you human
Then tonight, my love, you die
He dreams of a future. She has no future, only the long cold ache of never ending.
You dream of dawn and open fields
I dream of crypts and poisoned snow
You speak of years and growing old
There is no age in what I know
Your neck beneath the silver moon
Has become my sweetest sin
And every moment that I stay
Brings death a little closer in
I can feel the beast awaken
With every breath you give to me
And I know the price of wanting
What can never be
So kiss me before the grave
Before my mouth becomes your end
Before these fangs choose hunger
Over lover, over friend
I would rather break your heart
Than drink the life behind your eyes
If I cannot keep you human
Then tonight, my love, you die
The candles have gone out. The prayer she cannot speak is his name.
Your name still burns on lifeless lips
A prayer I do not dare repeat
The moon bears witness to my grief
As shadows gather at your feet
I trace the veins beneath your skin
Like scripture I was born to stain
And in the silence of this love
I choose your death above your pain
Do not call this mercy
Do not call me kind
I am carving out the only mercy
My cursed hands can find
Better by my sorrow
Than by my thirst undone
Better in my arms as death
Than living as the damned become
There is nothing left to say. Only the breath between them, and the grief she cannot speak.
Lay your head against me now
Hear the monster weep
I was never made for heaven
I was only made to reap
Ruins where the roses bloom
Ashes where the angels hide
And the only thing I ever loved
I must destroy tonight
So kiss me before the grave
Before eternity turns cruel
Before I drag your soul with mine
Into this endless tomb
I would rather stain my hands
Than watch your innocence decay
If I must become your ending
Then love will kill you clean today
One last breath
One last prayer
One last taste of mortal air
I loved you more than hunger
That is why I leave you dead
and then she found another, and chose differently
My Dark Creation→