Rain fell torrential and strong
Thunder clapped and lightning struck
Reminiscent of Stoker won’t be long
Unless God grants us a little luck
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Lightning flashed ‘cross blackened sky
Through gothic windows cast shadows eerie
I hope and pray I do not die
In castle dark on this night so dreary
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Surely my mind must be playing tricks
These things I see must not be real
A touch of flu, I must be sick
For if I’m wrong then my fate is sealed
~
As shutters bang in wind and rain
A winged creature I thought I saw
With eyes glowing red am I insane
Rush I must, the curtains draw
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A bang, a scratch on windows glass
I hide my face in fear a dream
A few long seconds the sound did pass
Minutes though it surely seemed
~
Then silence befell the musty room
A nightmare dream it must have been
Escape this place, this horrid tomb
Uncovering my eyes I turned a grin
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Lo’ I find I am not alone
In shock I stumbled and couldn’t speak
Fear on my face I must have shown
Evidenced by wrinkle of widows peak
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Eerie white and dressed in black
This fiend of fiction now stood before
I must admit I was taken back
Turning to run for bedroom door
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Faster than a blink he blocked my way
In fear I trembled where I stood
Not a sound or word did he say
Under his cloak and silken hood
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Then he scoffed deep and dark
The room took on a ghastly chill
Deadly silence no cricket or bark
A scream did emanate cold and schrill
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Frightened I fell on bended knee
His putrid breath upon my neck
The room went dark I could not see
On whole of my life did I reflect
~
Grasping tightly with claw-like fingers
Hoisting me like a childs toy
Growing intensity my terror lingers
My heart and soul he seeks destroy
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In a moments notice warmth I feel
A peace then fire runs through my veins
The slightest pinch in fog concealed
Monsters fangs they cloud my brain
~
I feel and smell the blood-soaked cotton
A trickle down my trembling arm
My wound it reeks of flesh gone rotten
Life is held in mortal harm
~
Again a laugh born of Satan’s Hell
Rings as unreal in dreary dream
My will to live dissolved in his spell
Nothing exists but him it would seem
~
This oddest of feeling from head to toe
My body and soul no longer of this world
Allegiance to him now must I show
Though why or how my thoughts he unfurled
~
He spoke in a tongue unlike my own
Though strangely understood by chance
You’ll never escape, I’ve returned you home
To eternity lived under Dracula’s trance
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Dom DiFrancesco 
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