"Immortality lies in a dimension beyond life.
Be young and old; be human and divine; be beyond life, and beyond death.
If you can be all these things together in your being and your thoughts, then --- then, milord --- you will have discovered immortality."

Tom Holland's
Lord of the Dead

The Lair

Ruler of the Night . . .

You, Monsieur, are an imp! The damnedest creature!

And I was thinking to myself, this could be Heaven -- or this could be Hell.

I never thought I'd change my opinion again
But you moved me in a way that I've never known
You moved me in a way that I've never known

But straight away you just moved into position again
You abused me in a way that I've never known

So you're the kind who deals with the games in the mind
Well you confuse me in a way that I've never known

You just keep me contemplating,
that your soul is slowly fading
God don't you know I live with a ton of regret?
'Cause I used to move you in a way that you've never known
But then I accused you in a way that you've never known
But you hurt me in a way that I've never known!

Break me shake me hate me, take me over
When the madness stops then you will be alone....

Break me shake me hate me
Take me make me
Break me!

-- Savage Garden

Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared...saying don't be afraid
Come on baby...and she had no fear
And she ran to him...then they started to fly
They looked backward and said goodbye...she had become like they are
She had taken his hand...she had become like they are
Take my hand...don't fear the reaper
We'll be able to fly...don't fear the reaper

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools!" said I, "You do not know,
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.

~ Simon and Garfunkel
The Sound of Silence

From my friend Mathias, vampiric German poetry....

Heinrich Heine, "Helena"

Thou hast conjured me from the grave,
with thy sorcerous will,
stimulated me with desire -
now you cannot quench the fire.
Press thy mouth against my mouth
Human's breath is divine!
I am drinking up your soul
the dead are insatiable

Johannes Brobowski, "In the empty mirror"

In the seas of light,
the stars, against each other,
copse of summer flies upwards
over your hip, lightnings
I shout down, you are coming
from afar, lightnings, ashes,
flakes of ashes
fall down from you, your gown
I was at your shoulder
the vein at your neck
broke in my mouth, you are
not sinking, I am holding you
by the arms, I am lifting you
above the depth, so go in
front of me
Once: I'll bring you the
drink again, I'll fly in front
of the heavens;
once: I'll come down,
you won't hear me breathing,
but the fields above the
wind are hearing you,
a white light speaks to you.