VAMPIRES

*VAMPIRES*

They ate our sunshine
before turning with ravenous eyes
and watering mouths
towards our spirits.

Vampires feeding on light and souls,
a blood lust unprecedented.

Was it enough to keep them satisfied?
Was it enough to keep them alive?

And what were we to do,
plunged into darkness after darkness?

To run and hide was futile.
Fugitives as we were, shackled
to these festering human shells.

What did freedom look like?
What shape would our resistence take
with hatred seeping into the water,
flushing us out from the inside.

Oil spills and infiltration.
Lies and emotional warfare.

The air is growing toxic.

But can there be darkness, truly,
or soullessness
without the light.

Without us.

Perhaps our revolution is to live
rather than simply, complacently
exist.

|| alanna joanne