Family pride

narrative verse

Family pride.

 

Count Dracula a mere upstart.

My lineage is as old as time,

my family have played their part

in every age and every clime.

 

Ur of the Chaldees knew my line

and ancient Egypt knew us well.

We served Rome under Constantine,

of us the oldest legends tell.

 

In the beginning we were few.

Raised families in the usual way,

our way of life has forced us to

adapt to night and sleep by day.

 

Because we do not truly die

We learned to give eternal life

and by our kiss transmogrify.

The chosen ones we took to wife

 

And as the ages slowly passed

We used our immortality

establishing a higher caste.

A vampire aristocracy.

 

A thousand thousand years or more

my family have roamed the earth.

and we will do so evermore

Of chosen food there is no dearth.

 

Though modern man regards us as

a silly superstition.

We pass amongst the upper class

secure in our position.

 

The common herd on which we prey,

Do not believe that we exist.

We take a victim every day

and know that they will not be missed.

 

The teeming cities can provide

for all our wants and needs

A secure place in which to hide

and chaos to disguise our deeds.

 

We do not kill to pleasure gain,

we merely cull the human race

The most of which is quite insane

without a single saving grace.

 

They breed unchecked; like wildfire spread

they know not how to live in peace

and countless ,countless are the dead.

To whom we did not bring quick release.

 

The cruelties that men inflict

on other men because they can

With rapine, slaughter they afflict

and  hurt another weaker man.

 

In time vampires will take their place

Acclaimed and vaunted by all men.

As champions of the human race

we will be recognised again.

 

Until that day comes we must hide

and seem to be as other men

but ever conscious of our pride.

A truly ancien regime then

 

03/03/2010 01:38