The Vampires
The night’s so dark it’s almost inky
The bats squeak with greedy delight
they are strong and tough and flitty
as they lock down on the sight...
---of little bugs and delectable fruits
that are abundant inside of this land.
I think: “These little beasts, they’re almost cute
but I wouldn’t want one on top of my hand.”
With little fangs they seem so viscous...
terrifying and filled with diseases.
They are intimidating and suspicious
they move like a demon that’s broken in pieces.
Like scraps of dark leather they flutter
in the ominous black of the night
so as I peek out my bedroom shutters
and I compare them to lunatic kites.
They swarm and scatter and come again
Scatter and collect and then...
They are gathering at my window pane
and it seems they want to come in.
I have to hold the shutters closed
as the glass of my window just shatters...
What they want from me, I do not know
but I supposed then, it didn’t matter.
These bats, I saw they were different
from the ones that I knew, locally.
They’re pitch black and belligerent
Their humongous fangs were white and shiny
With high pitched voices, they scared me
but I did use all of my strength.
I was trapped there, and I could not flee
so I drew out the night times length.
When a ray of Sun started to cut the sky
only then, were they ready to retreat
and I collapsed and breathed a weary sigh
exhausted from... my nightlong feat.
I got some help from a friend of mine
she said she’d help me to fend them off
but I saw her fangs, as she uttered a bat-like whine
and I gasped so hard I coughed...
But it was too late, she tackled me...
and put two piercings onto my neck
my blood, she drank as it flowed free
and I told her to “Go to heck...”
Then she said “It’s over now---
and you’re in, with the rest of us...”
She had blood smeared from her chin to her brow
while I was silent in pain and fear and disgust.
From this you may see my origins
if you just so happen to inquire
why I live my life hiding from the light of day
---How I joined the dreaded vampires.
---Ava Nerio (ourhedgehogsunitethings)
