I'm turning away from thy light
and lay myself into blackest night
I adore the sleepless nights
awe this endless death
A view of creation are a view of Illusion
this synopsis of sublife
a start from mud
But here I'm as anyone a part in this play
of neverending lives
of remembering it all over again
Hail to endless night away from the ugliness of the sun
showing the ugly new world growing here
all around us
A world taking away personality and human contact
a frozen lake of endless tears
and in endless pain

Countless killers during the 20th century have been inspired by the predatory and seductive manner of the most famous vampire in fiction and film, Count Dracula. Published in 1897 in England, the novel Dracula has never been out of print. According to vampire scholar Martin V. Riccardo, of the approximately 300 vampire movies made since Bela Lugosi played the bloodsucker on the silver screen in 1931, a third have been about the character of Dracula.

I sit here
naked
and welcome you to me
never before have I opened up
like I do to you
I feel your strength
flowing through my veins
my body trembles
relief rushes over me
crashing down on me
like a wave
yet
I want more
I can't get enough of you
I hunger
I thirst
for your sweet taste
your soft scent
you
your eyes
burn me
scorch me
pain
you promised
yet
I can't get enough of you
I never will
for the eternity
we are together
one

Over the centuries, the vampire has undergone radical changes. From the Count in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel to the alcoholic New Yorker Sam in the 1997 film Habit, the figure of the vampire has evolved with society.

I saw your face in my dreams again, You washed away my tears.

I woke and remembered you were gone.

I am drowning in solitude again.

I remember the perfect way your hand fir mine, The sweet taste of your lips.

I once saw heaven in your eyes, I now see hell in his.

I am drowning in solitude again.