THE GHOSTS OF OCTOBER

In the ash of October -

The same month that we met...

The vampire man

spoke words I forget...

But the gentleness revealed

was what inspired the kiss...

That was only a moment -

But a moment in bliss.

That moment of passion

though short & and quite chaste...

The moment -

It haunted me

That moment -

He wanted me

The moment we did not

but should have embraced.

The ghost of that moment

it followed & grew...

The ghost of that moment

it devoured & slew

All that would stand between

the vampire & I...

Till our moment came

& kissed that ghost goodbye.

That ghost of that long ago October Night...

It no longer haunts us though to do so was right...

For hauntings can sway us when we know not romance...

And that moment was our only ghost of a chance.

© MARCH 21, 2000 By Menes

-FOR DANIEL WRIGHT ZALEWSKI-

Who Haunted Me For Years &