A too severe penalty?? for M lady Emily rose

narrative verse

 

A too severe penalty?

 

The vampire breed grows more profuse.

According to the latest news

They have evolved and hunt by day

This frightens me I have to say.

 

I used to stay indoors by night

and do my chores in broad daylight.

I knew that vampires feared the sun

But now that last safeguard is gone.

 

They used to fear the crucifix

just as they should the heretics.

 But now we have no defence at all.

Should a vampire choose to call.

 

They do not wear long flowing cloaks

 they dress like all the other folks.

There is no way you can be sure

about the family next door

 

You cannot tell who you can trust.

To be quite free of the blood lust.

Even the Vicar is not free

of being watched suspiciously.

 

I do not mind donating blood.

I feel quite strongly that I should

 but only voluntarily

 and taken scientifically.

 

I live alone reclusively

 and venture out reluctantly.

Do all my shopping on the net

which seems to be the safest bet.

 

I often wonder what they’ll do

 when everyone’s a vampire too.

No humans left on which to prey.

 They’ll have to find some other way.

 

To satisfy their thirst for blood

Though I have always understood.

They do not prey on their own kind

Because their systems are designed

 

to digest only human blood.

Their prime and only source of food

When the last of us is gone

 and no one left to feast upon

 

They’ll be condemned eternally

to wander wailing hungrily.

A well deserv’ed punishment

for preying on the innocent

 

Thee is no court of last appeal

to which the vampires could apply.

But if there were could it repeal.

Established laws and let them die

 

I like to think perhaps they would

 for vampires are misunderstood.

perhaps they did not choose to be

 vampires voluntarily.

 

18-Oct-08

 

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