Initiation

by Lily Luchesi:

The knife
Glittering with
Red rubies
The same color as
The blood in her veins
Black onyx
Like her soul
Now that it has become
What it is
And pewter hilt
Cold as her heart
Covered in steel
The blade
Silver and
Reflecting the pain
In her eyes
Afraid to make the cut
Defile her pure, while porcelain skin
Make a cut
So much sharper than
Her previous inflictions
But she must find courage
To open her veins
Tear her flesh
Let the red blood
Stain the blade
The ritual knife
She needs to let them
Drink of her life’s source
She must bleed
To pass the
Initiation
Into a coven of
Love
Hate
Life
And death

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.

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