How To Discern a Vampire

   
   
Lashings  
   
Of the tongue  
   
Yet  
   
Delivering the flesh rending cruel bites of a leather whip  
   
   
   
Shooting  
   
Off at the mouth  
   
Yet  
   
Internally bleeding brutal like hot bullets  
   
   
   
Drowning  
   
Out your words  
   
Yet    
   
My hands are around your throat forcing you to remain submerged  
   
   
   
So clean of an assassin    
   
Bleeding your kill with invisible weapons  
   
Passive aggressive witchery  
   
Dominating with steel strings hooked on the heart    
   
   
   
Though to the trained eye  
   
Your nature is revealed  
   
In the weary lines of depleting life force  
   
Written on the face of your unwell companion