i.
The helplessly ignorant peasants
engulfed in their sulky routines
Blissfull in their unawareness
that evil is not what it seemsii.
Breathless, he steps through the doorway
struggling to gain his composure
He hulks and stammers, then starts to convey
what he claims to have seen in the pastureAs the boy carried on
about a witch and a ghoul
His old grandma
had seen something foulThe moment she spotted
two marks on his skin
She remembered
the old tale, so grim;iii.
Bloodthirsty vampires
denied of fruition
With incurable desires
and miasmal affliction
Will once more
return to these shiresiv.
And let it be known
without dubitation
It will not be
our day of salvation
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Webster's definitions:Peasant (one of a class of persons, as in European countries, of inferior social rank, usually engaged in agricultural labor)
Sulky (gloomy or dull)
Breathless (deprived of breath)
Vampire (a preternatural being, commonly believed to be the reanimated corpse of a person improperly buried, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night)
Fruition (attainment of anything desired)
Incurable (not curable)
Miasmal (a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere)
Dubitation (doubt)
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