Long winter's night

Vampires are out. The night is ice.
This long winter's night 
Hasn't rested me quite.

I must write 
But about what I can't think.
Just that I've used up the horse 

I've hoped will carry me 
Like the Lady out of my reach.
A beach not far away,

Waves crashing,
Moon blackened and cinders hide my view.

It doesn't come easily 
Escaping the hope someone might 
Rescue you.

Outside trees make a sort of white 
Noise.
They're a suburban menace 

Disturbing me from my trance.
It's not enough to understand you're a man.
It's how far back in words 

You wish to go.
Why not say I'm an animal?
It's not enough if you're a woman.

The world demands more than 
There's likely to give.

But the vampires outside 
Stir in the dead of night.
So I reside 

To giving life my best.