Monday, October 18, 2021

Vampires are the Undead

 


Photo by Loren Cutler on Unsplash

Vampire

A vampire's hunger

is gnawing and deep

are you ready to grasp

a life undead

immortal you'd be

not of this coil

but dead and cold

decaying inside

as you hunger and crave,

 the warmth of life's blood

from an innocent babe

someone you love,

take all you want

get death in return

your life you've forfeit,

for the mantle of doom.


So which would you choose?

This trick or this treat

on this most 

dark and deadly

Halloween fête?

Yolanda Renée (C) 2021


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10 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

What a question.
Eternal life (or unlife) has no appeal for me, but...

Natalie Aguirre said...

I don't want eternal life either. Great poem for October!

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Who wants to live forever like that?

Denise Covey said...

Ah. Love that book. If we all lived forever, the dear old planet would be in big trouble!

Elizabeth Seckman said...

Vampires creep me out. You know their breath is probably awful. That's so not sexy.

Yolanda Renée said...

Nope, not for me either! Hi, Sue!

Yolanda Renée said...

Thanks, Natalie. I tried to do something special for Halloween.

Yolanda Renée said...

Don't know a soul who would!

Yolanda Renée said...

Wouldn't it, especially if were filled with only the dead. Eventually they'd run out of the living!

Yolanda Renée said...

And the BO, OMG. Can't imagine! :)