There are warnings You are always warned Don't eat the candy Stay in at night Lock the door. There are always warnings Always warning you But for the second You are tempted You remember vaguely The constant background warning But you were never given The stories behind them. You are tempted You forget You fall, and end changed. Now you are a story. Now you warn. There are always warnings.
Vaguely Neil Gaiman-inspired. I love the little vague creepy stories he sometimes does in the prologues of his short story collections.