Neonate Burden

by Simon Kiasyd

Condemned to death everlasting am I,"
Exiled by the sun, banished from the flames,
To choke on the blood of man
to slake the thirst of the monster I have become.

My world is now composed of nightfall,
shadows and bloodshed in dark places,
Unfeeling members of my kind, who now
do as I do, act as I act.

The nights are cold to me, now,
I miss the sunrises took for granted,
and the daylight that was once mine
now gone forever from my eyes.

And yet I rise each night to witness
the moon, the only light I know,
as I fall farther from the man I was
into the beast I have become.

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