Secrets of the Vampire and Mosquito is a poem that compares the Vampire and Mosquito.
The Vampire is a fabled creature with well established roots in literature and folklore, while the mosquito is an insect that has existed perhaps longer than the modern man.
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Secrets of the Vampire and Mosquito
People postulated in ancient years
allegedly based on fables and fears,
the anemia-causing, blood sucker’s identity;
Vampire, they called the entity
From early days of witches and religion,
before facts fell to time and fiction,
valiant knights walked the streets,
but dark truths underlaid their gallant feats
Legend says they thrived at night:
fanged creatures that feared sunlight,
capable of afflictions, stealth and flight,
and siphoned blood, draining till white
with glowing teeth and extended incisors,
that pierced the skin like honed scissors,
monsters resident in the dark towers,
undead demons with untold powers
then the tales of holy water and spray,
“raise the crucifix and earnestly pray”
“to religious totems, their evil is allergic”
“stake the heart, chew some garlic”
Critics claimed the myths came from shame,
from gallant knights with their glory and fame
fearing defeat from a thing with no name,
so peddled cover stories sounding so lame
‘tween facts of bats and rabies,
and tales of Dracula and taken babies
one can’t help but sit and wonder
which and what is truth or blunder
The night demon with blood appetition:
likely an exaggerated mosquito definition
Analysis of every other presentation:
superstition or malaria hallucination
Whether you fancy the “vampire” manifesto
or feel it’s just the tiny mosquito,
this is the logical big secret:
the two are one and indiscrete
Secrets of the Vampire and Mosquito, explained
There is a lot of controversy surrounding the story of vampires, from their origins and physical appearance to their abilities.
This piece is another enthusiastic contribution to the vampire controversy but this time around, a bold comparison of the vampire and mosquito.
Of course this is not the first attempt at a medical explanation for the vampire phenomenon; a condition called ‘Porphyria‘, used to be in the spotlight.
In some forms of porphyria, patients had blisters and sores on the skin when exposed to sunlight so they kept mostly indoors. They also had glowing pink teeth under ultraviolet light and their urine had red color.
As the focus of this article is on the ‘vampire and mosquito’, I will like you to ruminate on the following:
- Humans have always known about ‘malaria’ and ‘mosquitoes’ but did not link the two until the late nineteenth century, therefore it must have been ridiculous to think that tiny mosquitoes could cause malaria whereby people became very pale and possibly died.
- Mosquitoes are more active at night and in dark places.
- Symptoms of
- abnormal behavior and delirium seen in “cerebral malaria”
- very dark urine from massive red blood cell destruction as seen in “Blackwater fever”
- hypothermia (low body temperature), seen in “Algid malaria”.
- abnormal blood coagulation with impaired blood clot, therefore tendency to bleed.
Now, think about vampires (this could help), then read ‘the poem’ again and allow your imagination to run wild.
Meanwhile, this is another ‘poem’ that I wrote about malaria: “Bad Malaria in the Good Child“.
Conclusion
The Vampire and Mosquito share similarities like appetite for blood and preference for the night.
If you choose to explain away the more fanciful tales of the vampire as fables or malaria hallucinations founded on religious beliefs, the line of distinction between the two fades even further.
You could then conveniently say that Vampire and Mosquito are one and the same.
