My Mother Is A Werewolf

My mother is a werewolf

She is sweet, caring and generous

Part human

Until she becomes aggressive and beast-like

Part wolf

She says she loves me in a minute

And in the next she’s baring her fangs

With blood in her eyes

Her screams muffled by howling

Leaving me bleeding helplessly in her maws

Like prey

My father is a vampire

I learned from him the ways of the world

How to read books, charm people

A thousand talents impossible to master in a single lifetime

But he ends up sucking people dry in order to survive

Including myself

I am daughter of both worlds

I am neither, I am both

I walk two planes at once

Both feet in different places

Trying to keep the balance

That they never managed to achieve.