The Vampire’s Lament: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

The Vampire’s Lament

I

In a tomb, two vampires met,
Where the soil and walls were wet,
And crept worms through the dark,
Without lamp or flutting spark,
Except a patch where pure light
In beams fell from greater heights.
This spot they shunned as they spoke,
And on rot and foul air choked,
Skin as pallid as white bu…