Dracula's Castle

In the eases softening breeze leaves rustle in the crisp Autumn air, as the creeping shadows begin to claim the Hallows of the darkening night, layer by layer the blackness Swallows whole the last remaining essence of light, At dusk's twilight’s fading hour! Within isolation's remote venue, the spiritually forgotten Slithering forth as a vaporous residue oozing outwardly From fractures breakages in the castle walls, phantoms Do creep in silhouette form, these the disembodied Severed from their living life force! Decades stacked by historical bones of the murdered, Slaughtered and tortured to death, privations materials Of strength for the strong bricks needed, with bloods Lubrication and fleshes supple distinction, a fortress Of pure evil was wrought and made! In this demonic lair of the supernatural, pricked has Been the thin veil of humanity, releasing the backwash Of the neither world, it elopes forth dispelling, draining Within a crimson whirlpool of the vile and distained! The whistling howls of the past deceased, echo hauntingly between The mangled ruins of the torrents, as the heavy footsteps of Armed soldiers clamor above, upon the battlement towers! Yet nothing outside can be seen by the naked human eye, Except a chilling presence, chased away in the breezes Of reality! Storm clouds gather as if a woven tapestry of the demonic, Clamoring thunder bolts clash, against the earth shattering Lighting grappling at the roof of Dracula’s Castle! For it is a dark omen, an ominous ushering of his awakening, The dark master of evil will soon walk amongst the living Once more, as the children of the night howl, in a terrifying, Nightmarish tribute unto their satanic lord! For buried beneath the rotten floor boards of his ruins castle, Hidden within the moldy, musty tombs of generations of death, And decays mummified putrid flesh, a narcissistic demon dwells! This unsanctified grave robber of the living, the devil’s unholiest Of spawn, whom survives on the life essence of humanity? The beast at wing, transforming at deceptions beckoning, To capture the innocent victim unaware, of his menacing Threating presence, until it is far too late for escape! Behold the vampiric cobra ready to strike, at the bare exposed Throat of innocence, in the throbbing fanged points of Penetration lies an ethereal passion, the consummation of Light being totally consumed by the ultimate darkness, Nay behold mortal, the birthing of a newly born vampire! In the chilling of the blood there is life, it’s the viral Infection of the afterlife, this creature with insights Enhightened senses flares outwardly against the moons Translucent light, extending its gargoyle like wings, Unto the dark dominion of his black fathers kingdom! Count Dracula is pleased, with his newest dark disciple, Returns unto his place of ancestral birth, to rest again Until night falls abyss absorbs the sun once more, Than this darkest of lords, shall walk amongst his Undead kindred, as their ultimate master of destruction! Welcome curiosity’s transgressor, know that you have been so warned, For you’ve entered the deadliest of the twilight zones, Here humanity has little standing ground, except to feed The undead tribe of a vampiric father, known as Count Dracula! BY: CHERYL ANNA DUNN