Only good priest is a dead priest

There is this idea

that every vampire is better off

staked and

left to burn.

What about those who hunt the wicked?

What about those whose fangs

rip out the throats

of pedophile priests?

Isn’t it better to send them off

to their cruel sky god

sooner

rather than

later?

What if they were turned to salt?

What if all those vampires 

we’ve slain over the centuries

have been instruments

of angels?

What do we do when

the predators

have led us to slay

our own protectors?

Would it shock you to know a priest can be a liar, too?

Would it

really

shock you

to know the See of Rome to truly be the See of Babylon?

All these centuries of hunting,

all the roaring fires,

all the stakes,

all the beheadings;

instead, 

we could have turned on those

collared beasts in our midsts.