You feel safe in your garden, turning over the fresh soil while the sun warms your back; you rejoice in the sunshine, never giving a thought to the night and its shadows.  When darkness falls you will be safe within the walls of your warm home.  When you've finished gardening, take a walk in the bright afternoon, perhaps with a friend.  Don't think of things that go bump in the night.  Don't think about the ghoul.

He craved their warmth

Sometimes he watched from the shadow

Dreamily wondering

How it would feel to allow

Himself to drown

In the sun that they took for granted

To let it sink

Deep beyond his bones to his soul

He had forgotten

Almost all that he'd once wanted

Except the warmth

And the deep need to be alive

Content with

Sinking his fangs into the night

Itself and

Sucking the life out of life