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This was written by my friend, Baron Wulfstan Egweald of the Kingdom of Atlantia (Society for Creative Anachronism)...When he recited it around a medieval bonfire, he spoke it from his soul. I felt at that moment, that I had been transported across centuries.





A Vampire's Lament

by Baron Wulfstan Egweald

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I'm in command of all I survey

The Darkness is my domain

Enshrouded by fog I make my way

Among the crypts and corpses slain



On wing of night and wispy fog

The cobblestones, with blood, run red

Foolish Mortal, you'll die like a dog!

Dare you to stand against the Undead?



A thousand years upon this Earth,

cursed from the morning of my birth

O' the stories I could tell

Living an existence of blackest Hell



Shades and shadows my only friends

A thousand years of tortured dreams

The wounds of ages...only time mends

And nothing is ever the way it seems



I've seen the Invasion of Pevennsey

By Duke William of Normandy

And I've seen King Henry, stout and pure...

Defeat the French at Agincourt



And I've seen... Swords, lances, spears and shields

Give way...to great steel beasts upon the fields

And in this folly that man calls War,

I've seen the destruction of a billion score



Man is stupid...foul of deed,

But blood is blood, and I must feed

Now I am weary, I seek my final end

And my eternal foe, the Sun, has now become...my friend