Ode to the Tymdweller

Tymdweller near, whose heart do you hold dear

Whose soul do you haunt?

Whose lips do you set atremble, whose throat feels

The pull, the vampire's heartbeat?

Hateful abyss, this I'm trapped in stuck on

This side and sick for the other,

The other with it's soft cerulean sky, it's soothing beauty,

Color of my frozen heart, cold color of your eyes...

Blue... your eyes...

Blue undulating encircling clear reflective pools,

Capture the skyscape, the garden walls and me.

Brackish water, septic soul, wakening deep on a memory,

Deep dark purple pools shadow my heart and my eyes

Sad perspective, pale existence, blood lust-horror

Mourning life lost, quickening, in this damp sepulchral cell,

Your one foot entrenched on my heart,

The other leading me 'round to Death's ever waiting door.

The hunger awakens me to this nightmarish existence.

My body, my body left weak in this forsaken place,

This airless dark-locked dank-nasty tomb,

My flesh on this cold encrusted slab,

Wakened by the dark-pulsing black blood through my soul.

I hear your call, Tymdweler, calling me to rise,

And prey fangish upon innocents feeding on souls, life shed in the night.

Tell me Tymdweller, are you near?

Are you waking now from within your own cancerous kernel,

Wakening, rising to do the selfsame evil I shall do?

That same sucking evil that took my soul to yours such an age ago?

Tell me Tymdweller, whose heart do you hold dear?

My soul still shivers, my heart aching swells,

And blue-cold I feel your stare

Your soft impassioned touch emblazoned 'cross my screaming soul

An eon, years ago, your touch, still here.

TALES OF MY COMIC CHARACTERS...

IMMORTAL SOULS

ONCE AMONG THE MORTAL SOULS

NOW THE UNDEAD SEEK TO RULE.

VAMPIRE, ZOMBIE, GHOSTLY GHOUL

WALK THE NITE A GHASTLY CREWE.

NECROMANCER, DARKNESS DANCER

EACH GRUESOME APPARITION STRIVE TO MASTER.

STAY THE LINE 'TWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

VOODO MASTER WITH FUNEREAL STEALTH.

UNKNOWN POWER LIES WITHIN

A BADGE TO JUSTIFY YOUR MORTAL SIN.

BEAUTY EMBEDDED WITH FILTH AND GRIME

THE GRITTY CITY HIDES IT'S CRIME.

PARADES AND BEADS, THE GLITTER SHINES

UNDERNEATH THE GLOW OF FUNEREAL SHRINES.

IN THE GUTTER, SLEEPS A CHILD

PITIFUL; UNTIL SHE SMILES.

FANGS SO SHARP THE PIERCE YOUR VEIN

'TIL YOUR LYING IN THE DRAIN.

A MOUTH STITCHED CLOSED TO SILENCE

THE GIRL WHO WAS THE DEBUTANTE.

NOW SHE FEEDS ON HER OWN KIND

PRETTY GIRLS WITH DRESSES FINE.

EXPENDABLE, THROWAWAY, RUNAWAY

ON HIS SKATEBOARD, IN YOUR WAY.

YOU RECOIL FROM HIS STENCH

BUT STILL REFUSE TO BUDGE AN INCH.

DADDY USED TO VISIT HER

HIS SPECIAL GIRL, THEIR SECRET PURE.

NOW SHE DANCES IN THE NIGHT

AND CUTS THEIR THROAT BEFORE DAYLIGHT.

A CONCRETE CELL NO LONGER IMPRISONS

THE POETS DARK PHANTASM.

DRAWN BY STRIFE, HIS PEN IT ITCHES

TO TELL THE TALE OF INHUMAN GLITCHES.

TRAINED TO KILL BUT NOT TO CARE

INTO THE BACKGROUND SHE'LL

WAITS TO STRIKE; AN EYE FOR AN EYE.

THIS ONE LOOKS GOOD; I'M SURE IT'S MINE!

RELUCTANT ANGEL, REBELIOUS SOUL

REFUSE TO HEED HIS FINAL WORD.

STUCK BETWEEN HEAVEN-N-HELL

SHE SMIILES AS EASY AS SHE KILLS.

TRAPPED BY SPELL AND CRUCIFIX

PATIENTLY HE WAITS HER KISS

RELEASE THE MONSTER, STAR ATTRACTION

HE DRAINS THEM DRY WITH SATISFACTION.

A BETER COVER CAN'T BE FOUND

SHE STALKS THE NIGHT; VICTIMS BOUND.

FOURTY DOLLARS SEEMS ALRIGHT

'TIL IT COSTS THE JOHN HIS LIFE.

A MAN WOULD DO ANYTHINJG

VOWS ARE SPOKEN WITH A RING.

YEARS GO BY- SHE'S STILL THE SAME

STILL AS PRETTY AS THE DAY.

HER HUSBAND DIED OF OLD-OLD AGE!

HER FIRST LOVE BUILT A HOUSE SO FINE

CORNSTALK MEMORIES FILL HER MIND.

AN IMMORTAL TOOK HER LIFE

SHE'S NOW THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS' WIFE.

AUTUMN LEAVES SCATTER BY

REFLETED IN BOTTOMLESS EYES.

HE BLENDS SO WELL IT'S HARD TO SEE

IS HE A MONSTER, OR IS IT ME?

GLAMOUR HIDES THE BEAUTY WELL

BUT IF YOU KNOW YOU SOON CAN TELL.

SMOKE AND MIRRORS IN THE LIGHT

TIL THEY VANISH IN THE NIGHT.

GLIDING BY ON WHEEL AND WING

YOU WONDER... WHAT'S ALL THAT FLUTTERING?

I MUST HAVE DREAMT IT; I CAN'T SEE

BLOODS THE PROOF OF VAMPHAERIE.

GHOSTLY LAUGHTER FILLS THE AIR

SOFTLY WINGS BRUSH BY HAIR.

WHISPER LOVE WORDS IN THE NIGHT

BEFORE SHE REACHES FOR A BITE.

DESTINED TO BE QUEEN OF ALL

NEVER MADE IT TO THE BALL.

NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE

HEADLESS CORPSE WITH IT REPLACE.

REVENGE TO SEEK IS NOW HER GOAL

ZOMBIE QUEEN, 16 YEARS OLD.

...BLOODY BONES

REMNANTS OF HUMANITIES EXISTENCE

LAY IN TATTERED SHREDS OF FLESH.

VAMPIRES DESIRE  

(This was a dream I had-wrote it in the dark)

Lying cold, trapped by light

Eyes heavy as the cross I bear

Suddenly lightened,

Lightened by her kindness,

Innocence wasted on the damned

Evil incarnate, death unleashed by trust

Killer's soul redeemed by virtuous fidelity

Angelic seductress, thief of my frigid heart

Yearning awakens it's blackened core.

Welcome respite from eternal sleep

All-trusting, her blood-smell intoxicating

Lashes removed, freedom centuries in wait

Looking, feeling her presence draw me near

Artist of the night

Call to the Tymdweller

Edification requires restraint,  I see the light.

MY VAMPIRE

HIS BEAUTY LIES JUST BELOW,

THE SHRIVELED SKIN- PROTRUDING BONES.

FOR DECADES SHE HAS KEPT HIM HERE,

TRAPPED BY CROSS AND VOODOO SPELL.

I PAINT HIM AS HE MUST HAVE BEEN,

TATTERED BODY, BRUSHES MEND.

HE VISITS ME WITHIN MY DREAMS,

HIS MIND IS FILLED WITH TORTURED SCREAMS.

I KNOW NOT WHAT THE COST WILL BE,

THE TIME IS NEAR- I'LL SET HIM FREE.

SLOWLY SO THEY DO NOT NOTICE,

THE BLOOD I GIVE TO HIM WILL NOURISH.

WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT I PLAN,

HIS FREEDOM NOW IS IN MY HAND.

DARE I LOOSE THE PRINCE OF NIGHT,

SEND HIM ON HIS EVIL FLIGHT.

I WANT HIM MORE THAN I VALUE,

VICTIMS LIVES-FUTILE BATTLE.

GOD HELP ME BUT I WANT TO BE,

AN EVIL SUCKER- IMMORTALITY.

TIMELESS NIGHT, THE ATTRACTION,

AT LAST I WILL HAVE SATISFACTION!

DISTRACTION AT THE PERFECT TIME,

ORCHESTRATED TO COVER MY CRIME.

I LEAVE THE SCENE- SOUL AT PEACE,

TO WALK THE NIGHT AND WAIT FOR HIM.

HEADLINES TELL HIS VENGEFUL BLOW,

"CARNAGE FOUND AT VOODOO JOE'S."

HIS ARM ENCIRCLED ME JUST RIGHT,

ANTICIPATE HIS BLOODY BITE.

SUPRIZED TO FIND THAT HE,

HAS MORE SCRUPLES THAN ME.

HE TRIES TO MAKE ME REALIZE,

DEEP DARK EVIL IN HIS EYES.

SWIMMING POOLS OF BLOOD AND FIRE,

MY SOUL HE CANNOT HYPNOTIZE.

SURPRIZE SHOWS CLEAR UPON HIS FACE,

AT LAST HE'S BEATEN IN THE RACE.

TO SAVE MY SOUL- OR MAYBE HIS,

AT LAST I'M GRANTED MY LAST WISH.

IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE,

OF ME A VAMPIRE HE WOULD MAKE.

I SEE THE WORLD THROUGH NEWBORN EYES,

I NEVER MISS MY OTHER LIFE.

SWEET METALIC TASTE OF BLOOD,

FLOWS TO FILL THE ACHING NEED.

TO KILL WOULD JUST BE SENSELESS GREED,

GLUTTONY- YES SURELY GREED.

I LET THE PRETTY VICTIM GO,

MY SURVIVAL MAKES IT SO.

THE ROUTINE OF THE LIGHT IMPAIRED,

DEATHS' EMBRACE WITHIN MY LAIR.

THE SILENT SLEEP MY FATE,

IN MY VAMPIRE'S HIDING PLACE.

NECROMANCER

DANCING CORPSES SWAY-

SWAY TO THE WHIM OF A MASTER

NECROMANCER; MOONLIGHT MAGICIAN,

LAY THE RESTLESS IN THEIR GRAVES,

LEST YOU LEAR THEIR SECRETS DARK.

HIRED TO DO A SIMPLE JOB,

YOU DO THE DIRTY WORK TO ROB

THE RESTFUL PEACE ETERNALLY.

PERMISSION GRANTED BY ANCESTOR

GIVE YOU LEAVE- DESPOIL THEIR GRAVES.

SURE IT ALL SEEMS PERFECTLY FINE,

SOON ONE DAY IT WILL BE YOUR TIME.