Dawn in Shadow

Eternity is wasted on the emotional. Those that can handle it, live true and live forever. It is our right for we are not part of the world but above it.

To live forever is not a curse

To walk this world young and strong

Drinking blood to slake your thirst

For such a gift, is this so wrong?

For a millennia I have lived

A thousand times over the world I have seen

Many wonders you will not believe

In the darkest places I have been

The sun's rays sometimes I miss

But there is more to be thankful for

In the shadows I have found bliss

To be reveled in forevermore

As you fight your petty wars

And feed mankind's growing rift

I continue my journey, this world to explore

Ah, to live forever is such a gift!

Reviews

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Interesting, the character in the poem describes is experience of how it has to destroy other people to stay alive and it has some thing where it tries to justify itself and convince other to support him. Very good, congratulations will read the other creative poems.

[Christopher Angel]

That's a unique interpretation! Thank you, I'm glad you liked it

[FlatLineBeauty]

I loved your writing! To view living forever as a gift is so true. I'm so tired of hearing people say I don't want to see this work x amount of years from now. There is so much to see, do, and experience!

[Christopher Angel]

It is a gift and I'm glad you see it as such too :)

[Katiya K]

When I browsed through your list of writings I chose this one to read first because I knew it was going to be about vampires and I'm glad I was right! Your poem structure was really good and when I read it in my head it sounded like a song. The way you put yourself in a sort of mythical creatures POV was really well done and I'm glad you chose to go backwards and write how vampires were back then and not as how they are romanticized now. Almost in every book a vampire resents their immortality...but I say why? Thank you for providing something so fresh!

[Christopher Angel]

I'm glad you liked it! That was really my intention - why should a vampire hate his nature? Do we as humans hate ours? We are who we are and if we could live forever and be young and beautiful for an eternity, surely to drink blood and shun the sun would be but mere sacrifices for a lifetime of wonder

[Katiya K]

Exactly! That's what I've thought...everything comes with a price no matter what even happiness.

[Christopher Angel]

The nail could not possibly be whacked on the head any harder! The tortured character would only be tortured if you can relate to his torture. I never could with the vampires pining for their mortality.

[MoriartyMesa]

To me this is what I would consider a practice thinking to being a Vampire. In many things, poems, books, tales, there is always this whole 'what a mistake emotion', but this was honest to the ones whom look past the effects.

[Christopher Angel]

Exactly. you hit the nail on the proverbial head! That was my point totally. I've written vampire stories for many years and I could never accept the tortured soul aspect of it. Granted, Louis had it in spades but he was balanced by Lestat. Drawing attention to immortality is far more attractive to me than moping about in the dark.