Story poem. Keeping a low profile For Friend Greg

rhyming quatrains in tetrameter

Keeping a low profile.

 

 I have survived for centuries.

At least fourteen or may be more

A string of broken memories.

I see no point in keeping score.

 

I am a vampire that is true.

But I am careful not to kill.

There is no reason I should do.

I exercise consummate skill.

 

Though they donate against their will.

My so called victims never know

that the have helped to fulfil

A goal I set so long ago.

 

I have the power to hypnotise

manipulate their memories

So that they never realise

 they have donated blood to me.

 

What they don’t know will do no harm.

They have no reason to suspect

 that they have cause to feel alarm.

I leave no sign they can detect.

 

They have been used to satisfy

 a long lived vampires appetite.

If they were asked they would deny

A visit from a parasite.

 

Would you believe me if I said

I visit you quite frequently.

When you are fast asleep in bed.

I’m sure you would not believe me.

 

Vampires are merely old wives tales

 That everyone knows are not true.

But many a stout heart will still fail

If I appear out of the blue.

 

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

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Reviews

[Greg the Bard]

The Vampires I know (Personnely) never come out of the blue. It is always much darker than blue. This is a wonderful lark in the english langueg. I love it. The image is really high level. By the way I have Sleep Apthney so I'm never asleep. Really great work.