Dancing into Her Lover's Dream

The black-caped gent twirled her on the dance floor.
His cold breath felt good under ballroom light.
She left but then found him at her car door.
Her heart raced; she took him home for the night.

Gone while still dark, he left a wilted rose.
She recalled naught but the stare in his eyes.
So tired, she could only lie in repose.
Yet she felt in love, much to her surprise.

He showed up each night then left her asleep,
and all the daytime she lay drained and spent.
She only thought of the love she would reap,
as her final breath came and faintly went.

Strange that he never roused the lady's ire.
She dreamed too late her love was a vampire.

Gary Davis loves all things classic horror. He has published short stories on Halloween and vampires in Aphelion, Frostfire Worlds, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Potter's Field 7 and The Hungur Chronicles (2016-2022). He has published poetry in Aphelion, The Vampire's Crypt, Tales of the Talisman, Bloodbond, Illumen, Scifaikuest, Star*Line, Tales from the Moonlit Path, two Lester Smith Halloween anthologies, and a sci-fi anthology—Kepler's Cowboys (2000-2023).

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