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Comment on David Selby’s poem. Did any particular lines speak to you?
Dark Shadows
A Poem
by David Selby
Forty some years ago, so far away
But the memories through time do burn
As if they happened only yesterday
And back to Collinwood I do return
When a certain evil ghost did appear
With a spell to cast and a plot to scheme
Luring children to a room so to hear
An old gramophone playing
Quentin’s theme
His frock coat covered a physique so lean
You knew he had to have something mean
up his sleeve
All his wickedness had yet to be seen
His spirit was such they had to believe
There was no choice but to pack up
and leave
But Barnabas came to even the score
Though ended back where he couldn’t
foresee
Trapped in his coffin, a vampire once more
He travels through time where
Quentin’s alive
Mysteries, secrets and intrigues galore
And son-of-a-gun ratings revive
With millions of fans clamoring for more
Dark Shadows had more surprises of doom
Quentin’s zombie who rises and walks
Then is a werewolf who howls at full moon
But in day sounds normal now that he talks
Suddenly a cure for his curse is found
Which Count Petofi finally effects
Now Quentin’s immortal and more
renowned
But the vampire’s taste for beautiful necks
Again wrecks havoc with Barnabas’ life
When Angelique dies, Barnabas is lost
So is his chance for a beautiful wife
Grief-stricken he knows what this has
All cost
And with Julia climbs the stairway
through time
Then Quentin destroys the stairs to the past
But the memories are there, yours and mine
Shadows of the night and the spell they cast.