First Bite

by Lily Luchesi:

Do you live

In the dark?

Do you dream

In black and grey?

Then come on

And join me

We can be

So dark together

Tip back this glass

Of fresh, warm blood

From the vessel

Seal our fate

Damn ourselves

But it’s worth it for

An eternity

Isn’t it?

Or is it all

Just a dark little fantasy?

Something we can

Wake up from

While the sun is still shining outside

These black-curtained windows

Come what may

This is a dark world

Forever in a shade

Blacks and greys

Red to prove that

Blood binds

Can you handle the darkness?

Then come on

Prove it

Take a bite

Lily Luchesi is an aspiring, young author/poet born in Chicago, Illinois, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Ever since she was a toddler her mother noticed her tendency for being interested in all things “dark”. At two she became infatuated with vampires and ghosts, and that infatuation turned into a lifestyle by the time she was twelve, and, as her family has always been what they now call “Gothic”, she doesn’t believe she shall ever change. She is also a hopeless romantic and avid music-lover, and will always associate vampires with love, blood and rock and roll.

Her interest in poetry came around the same time as when she was given a book of Edgar Allan Poe’s complete work. She then realized that she had been writing her own poetry since she could hold a pen, and just had not known the correct terms.

She finished her first manuscript at the age of fourteen (the first part in a young adult vampire trilogy) and is looking for it and a poetry collection to be published so that others can enjoy the darker side of art as she always has.