AN: I wrote this a while ago and only just got the courage to put it out in the wide world. I don't do poetry very often and I'm not really very good at it, so constructive criticism is welcome and appreciated!

They appear throughout time

flying on bats wings,

raining down fire,

stealing the princesses

To be slain by the knights.

Always the evil,

the awful, the feared.

But who ever thought

That maybe, just maybe,

there was a reason

to all that they tried.

Maybe not just desire,

Maybe there was a need.

They needed the people,

the cattle, the sheep,

so they could survive.

If you think that maybe,

just maybe, they stole,

they killed, they plundered

for a good reason . . .

Search out one of their kind

and ask it yourself.

Then come back to me

and tell me how it went.