Vampire

With a gasp I am born 

    of darkness and death

Hunger to dine 

    on the living's last breath

Travel by moonlight, 

    sleep during the day

My madness to feed 

    on the dull and the gray

Disdain for the pulse 

    of life in mankind

Loving to leave 

    all mortality behind

Finding my dreams 

    in darkness' embrace

The warmth of the blood 

    and the death that I taste

In a coffin I rest 

    never do I expire

When the sun rises 

    it's there I retire

The moon shines instead

    on my hunt every night

The blood that I spill 

    catches her light

The evil within 

    takes over, runs wild

Embracing the sin 

    as I dine on a child

Mercy no longer 

    a taint on my soul

I slay another 

    so that I am made whole.

(Of course this is fiction. I wouldn't really dine on a child.)