I, Doppelganger

I am of Nosferatu sucking out the life force damning it to hell. I am the bringer of death to the closed mind, the inhibited self. I am that which is feared and escaped by all with free will. I am of the race that feeds off the dead in thought and the spiritually ill. I prey on the assimilated with no minds of their own. I take and become them as they become my drones. If you choose to abide and conform to the norm, You make my job easy to assume your form. If you choose to assume a ready-made face, You make my work simple to take your place. If your life and being fits the usual mold, To me you have just been bought and sold. If you follow the old pattern pre-made, I am your shadow to become your shade. But if you choose it thus not to be, Then you choose to thwart and deny me. When the choices you make are yours alone, A visit from me you will ever postpone. When your spirit’s not tethered and let to roam free, I will never become you and you will never be me. So if you choose to be self and soul true, I will never know to replace you.