Modern Day Vampires Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

They suck human blood as hungry leeches
Screaming for life from dried up rivers.
They wander in darkness finding victims -
Attracted by their angelic poses
Energized by their slogans of success,
Power, greatness and happiness.

Vampires in the night, they have only
to attend to their own survival,
feeding and bloating their own egos
and haunting in fear those who oppose them.
They sacrifice children and women in the ovens of
their lust by their teeth like knives.

They wander as zombies in dark nights
Finding victims whom to suck blood;
They demand victims' full allegiance
And give them a trophy for transient paradise.
They sow seeds of fear and death
Each day they open their sharp mouth.

And the victims of vampires
begin to believe that all days are only nights.
And the vampires are masters
over their own fresh blood.
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October 26,2016
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