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Mother always told me
never go out alone
and always remember my dear
never stray
too far from home

To the villagers
I was far too free spirited
they didnt agree when I ran
about the woods uninhibited

You know everyones a critic
I'd heard my mother say
they say that you will lead
all their sons astray

Then one dark cold night
I ventured far from home
It was then I felt afraid
and very much alone

For laying dormant in the swamps
was a creature all should fear
but the warnings that my mother gave
to them I did not adhere

While the creature slept
with both fangs it lived on kelp
Soon it would hear my steps
then there would be no one
around to help

As I walked the margin of safety
between the swamp and woods
hoping that all the old wives tales
were simply nothing but falsehoods

I rolled the stories around in my head
but that only made them real
If only I had listened to mother
then my blood it would not steal

But now it is too late
and from his slumber he does wake
I run through the trees
and wish that day would break

Down it swoops into my path
legs become locked in fear
For I know that the end of the life
I once knew is almost near!.!.!.!.

When day breaks
I will be no more than a tabloid
dead to the world I once knew
A tyro in this life I'm now living
alive yet I am dead
the taste for blood I now pursueWww@QuestionHome@Com

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