By: Brianna Lee Hubler
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Bequeathed our sire The blood desire His stinging venom Hath no addendum For each bite spreads The thirst for bloodshed From the hunter to the hunted Ageless until ashes By her flaming lashes Nature beguiles our unchanging faces Sculpted subsidiary of her chosen races Her sky-stationed reaper harpoons His sunlit spears corral us beneath the moon From the hunter to the hunted Speed, strength, and sorrow We relentlessly borrow First from our sire Then by his blood desire We sap life’s vigor from our prey In shadowed ‘scapes and alleyways From the hunter to the hunted This cursed life compels We damn to hell The timestamped mortals we love and loathe Fanged and shadow-clothed We mirror the beauty of the night Seduce others to share our plight From the hunter to the hunted Trademark of our sire