dragon's blood

remember when it was 1990-something and you stayed up all night playing Vampire: the masquerade?
incense smoke unfurled while we explored the Existentialists, Romanticism, magick and the Old Ways
in the background, Elyria on repeat; each of us dreaming of our future Morticia and Gomez romance

adorned in Egyptian Goddess oil, the darkest of lipstick applied to a pale face
to dance in the shadows, the clove scented night
beautiful and grotesque
"two worlds and in between..."