Play Of Death

by Lily Luchesi:

Look around
Look at us
So darkly picturesque
But we’re not what we seem
None of us
We go upstairs & play-act
We maim, cut, whip & draw blood
All because of some inner turmoil
Not because it turns us on
We dress so hardcore
Black leather, lace, & velvet
Silver studs & spikes
But beneath the layers of
Black cosmetics
We’re all as gentle as
Newborn lambs
Girls stand at the bar
Letting guys buy them drinks
But they’re barely
Eighteen
Destroying their bodies to
Feel as though they’re in control
They take control with
Absinthe, art &
Razorblades
Self-mutilating
And medicating
To aid the
Sick addiction
We gather ’round the stage
The DJ booth
Chatting up the band
Laughing, talking
Acting as normal as
Us Goths possibly can
Smiling
Though, inside
We feel like screaming
This?
This is all a façade
The clothes are our costumes
The makeup & tattoos are stage paint
The bar, the dance floor, the fetish playroom
They are all our stages
And that immaculately dressed vampire next to you?
He is just another actor
In this play of 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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