He wears his heart
safety pinned to his backpack
His backpack is all that he knows
The pain was excruciating, burning through his veins, searing all the flesh it came in contact with. I pressed my eyes shut so strongly I expected it to hurt, but it didn't. The flames were overshadowing everything. I felt the ground I lay on, the things I touched, but that was all. I didn't hear, didn't see, didn't smell anything.
Shot down by strangers
whose glances can cripple
the heart and devour the soul
The others, the others were still hunting for the vampire. The vampire. I remembered his look. He had craved me and feared me at the same time. He had been bloodthirsty and angry, panicked and afraid. His eyes had spoken of pure madness.
All alone he turns to stone
while holding his breath
half to death
I clenched my teeth, I couldn't scream, they would find me, they would burn me. I tried to hold my breath but with every new wave of pain I took another gasp for air. Nice, cooling air, but no coolness came from it. I was numb to everything but the pain.
Terrified of what's inside
to save his life he crawls
like a worm from a bird
crawls like a worm from a bird
I was hidden, I knew that, but I didn't think it was enough. I had dragged myself into this cellar but who knew when someone would come down here? I had to get into cover. I pushed myself up from the dirty floor and excruciatingly painfully moved myself towards some boxes.
Out of his mind away
pushes him whispering
must have been out of his mind
Why had we chased this vampire? Why had we thought ourselves superior to it? I had seen the raw power in this being, I had seen the pure insanity it held, the insanity it had been able to pass on to me with his bite.
mid-day delusions
of pushing this
out of his head
maybe out of his mind
I thought of the other men. Running after the vampire. Running after the monster like the crazed fanatics they were. I saw that now, I could see the truth now. We had been stupid, delusional. I just hoped they wouldn't end up burning for it like I did.
All he knows
If he can't relieve it grows
and so it goes
he crawls like a worm
crawls like a worm from a bird
I had to scream, but I didn't. I couldn't be discovered. I couldn't be found out. The fire was swelling, burning everything in their container, my body. Soon they would have consumed me fully, but what then? What would happen then? Would I burst? Would I become like him? Would I lose my mind? But what if it never ended? What if I was condemned to endure this pain for eternity?
Out of his mind away
pushes him whispering
must have been out of his mind
In the pain I prayed. I prayed to the god I had done this for. I begged for him to end this suffering, to extinguish the flames, to keep me alive.
All alone he turns to stone
while holding his breath half to death
Terrified of what's inside
to save his life he crawls
like a worm from a bird
crawls like a worm from a bird.
"Please, make it stop."