Rigor Mortis

Vampire musing on life shortly before death

Every evanescent wink of exposure

To dawns ascending sun

Is simultaneously grievous and mollifying

To the anguish caused by eternal life

I have beheld the death of my kin

Until  I was the sole remnant of my lineage

I who awakens every twilight

To the torturous caterwauling of untold victims

Who perished by my own hands

To prompt only the most fleeting consolation

To an unquenchable thirst

Though I've endeavored to abstain

From the lust for crimson nectar

It has been unavailing

Thus I have concluded

That I am unmitigatedly a plague

One that must cease

So humanity may perdure

And so for the first time in millennia

I peer solicitously at Earths star

Awestruck at the comeliness I've long forgotten

And the final thing I glimpse 

Before falling to dust

Is my own reflection

An echo of who I once was

With a smile upon its face

The first smile since I was human

My terminal dawn