Rain, merciless

Do vampires feel pain? Sometimes, it's nothing but...

I catch myself thinking

Along with the rain

That dulls the pain

But never heals its reason.

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Rain, merciless,

As assassin’s dagger

Soaked in poison,

Builds illusionary walls

Around the hearts

Broken and betrayed,

Forlorn and silenced

By viciousness of minds

And carelessness of words.

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I can hear

The endless litany

Of hearts,

As I close my eyes

To breathe in

The laudanum essence

Of rain.

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Trickling down

The spine of the world,

It fills up

The emptiness

that once was a heart,

To overflow

And dry up

In the unforgiving sun

Of life.

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Rain, merciless,

Selfish,

Cruel

As a lover cast aside,

Washes away

Everything

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But memory

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Of betrayal.