Blood Cousins

Blood Cousins    
   
Live    
Hunt    
Kill    
   
The darkened core of my existence    
Refined and defined by the edicts of my father    
   
Eternal agony branded in me by the man who killed my mother    
Right in front of me    
Hacked with silvery steel as she screamed to comfort me    
I was baptized in her blood    
Purified and demonized all at the same time      
Those fleeting moments of her warmth were oddly    
Soothing    
   
Blood is the vessel of my spiraling  odyssey    
For the red pearls I seek are so elusive    
Never given    
Always taken      
   
In my sojourn I find those crimson pearls are essential most    
To those who deserve them least    
   
I study the rhythmic current of  blood and know it's echoes    
People congregate    
Blood coagulates    
The strong gather around the weak to help    
Or reek havoc    
   
When blood splatters and dries    
It's whispers of life can still be seen in the proper light    
   
Vampire    
Me    
No    
   
Lets just say we're kissing cousins    
   
We live by the same Code    
Live    
Hunt    
Kill    
   
And yes,  my cousins and I are selective    
Artistic in our approach even    
Haven't you ever heard of a    
Still    
Life    
   
Dexter Morgan    
Miami Dade PD 
   
Presented in the VAMPIRE challenge hosted by AngelicDarkness