A WHISPER OF ETERNITY Tender are the scars that never heal Deep are the wounds of the soul

Long is the night that never ends And false are the tales youve been told You have visited me within your dreams You have seen my shadow upon your wall You have heard my voice within you mind And you are helpless to resist my call I am the one you hope never to find Yet I am the one that fills your heart I am the one whose tender kisses You long for in the dark. I could hold you in a lovers embrace But once would never do For already you fill my senses With love and need for you I am legend, lore and myth I roam the dark of night I take what I need from the innocent I flee from dawns first light You ask who I am and what I am But in your dreams you already know Though a mortal man I may not be I am still the one who loves you so.

MIDNIGHT EMBRACE In the dark of the night my angel comes to me an angel, a nightmare a love not meant to be His kisses are edged with a dark deadly fire his eyes, like blue flame blaze with desire

He speaks of forever as his arms hold me tight eternity he promises if Ill surrender the light I whisper my fears he kisses them away my doubt he doth vanquish like night swallow day He woos me so tenderly how can I resist all I desire can be mine with one dark kiss

SHADES OF GREY Memories of daylight falls warm upon my mind teasing me tormenting me with all Ive left behind My heart beats cold all hope is gone, and I live in shades of gray the moon my sun, the sun my death should I surrender to the day The suns light, once a blessing now drives me to my lair where I dream of its warmth

DEEP PERSUASION From whence came forth the melody Whispering love to piercing eyes Dreams sprinkled with Stardust Are hidden in her sighs He yearns to hear the winsome song Amidst the bittersweet refrain But furrowed scorn upon his brow Recalls ashes in the rain Come closer, bids persuasion Turn not from tender woes These anguished depths of yearing Will move the tempered soul Magnificent the union Of hearts in deep embrace The bonding of two souls Which time cannot ease

A DARKER DREAM: THE HEART OF DARKNESS In the darkness of the fullmoon, his spirit has wandered for centuries, lost and alone, never sharing the light of a new day, always in the midnight hours he had walked. Darkness claims his troubled soul, the past haunts his waking hours. Then, like a glimmer of sunlight, she came to claim him, touching places long dead,

reviving hope, promising love. If only he dared believe, if only he dared reach out, and take that which he needs. Within the sadness, the emptiness, if just for tonight, her warm hand and gentle ways could dispel the endless night. Could love break this darkness he lives in? Believe, My Lord Rayven, only believe and love, happiness, and peace will find you IN THE SHADOWS I hide in the shadows and lust for the light For I am a Vampire, forever imprisoned by the night. The moon is my sun, the night is my day, Blood is my life, and you are my prey. I long for what Ive lost For that which can never be. I cloak the horror of what I am and pray you never see. I shadow my gaze in your presence and pray you may never be part, Of the hunger that claws my vitals of the evil that blackens my heart I look into your eyes and find forgiveness there

and for a momentone brief, sweet shining moment, I see an end to my despair Her touch has rendered me helpless, her trust weakens the chains of my past Dare I believe in the love she offers? Have I found an end to this darkness at last? THE OTHER ME During the night, I am the creature before you, pale and tall and straight dark eyes firing toward you gliding, lifting, steering, directing. I am the silent and the powerful a moonlight field of smooth, untouched snow But he Yes, him, the other me Oh, he would tremble in your grasp his lilly hand would crumble to your touch he would twist to press your lips to his he would stroke your silken cheek and slide his corroded lips along your dove like neck. Not I, you understand, the other me he who squints and hesitates and weakens in the day light I CAN FEEL IT COMMING I can feel it coming through the tears in the darkness quickly approaching as I conceal myself quaking underneath the shadows in the light

Shivers ripple my moist skin the urgent itching on the surface tormenting me keeping me locked in I run my tongue over my lips And I am found, as always Then it begins My resistance bleeds away and I am filled with the emptiness of my being Awareness is replete. The trail is ended Sated by the shattering my knowing why and left alive for the next visit The darkness has taken a piece of my soul REDEMPTION Aeons of darkness shrouded my soul I had forgotten the warmth and beauty of the sun Alone lonely I wandered the earth hoping yearning dreaming

of redemption Searching for an end to the hunger that engulfed me to the pain that tormented me for centuries the night was my day the day my night there was no color in my world until you. in your smile I found hope in your love forgiveness and now the light once denied me shines forever in your eyes.