Vampire - After Death

Drifting in and out of consciousness,
I find myself alive,
I find the answer that I seek,
but never fully contrive.
thoughts bubble forth inside my brain,
their ends,
they never meet,
fortunes told over gnarled hands,
dark fortunes I must seek.
I lie on the floor,
my body cold,
my mind is doth so wander,
as tiny needles of water streak,
across my ruined visage.
My blood no longer flows,
my face no longer glows,
my spirit no longer exists.

I glance around for shadows never cease,
is but a notion from my cold fever,
for I am now a part of that world,
where shadows lie dormant to suck forth the very life,
of those less traveled.
I revel in my newfound glory,
will wonder never cease!
My strength is found,
my body proud,
my soul is still abandoned.

But thoughts set adrift,
amid my dreamed stupor,
for life is gone,
and never again,
shall I be granted,
the chance to see the light of dawn,
the warm embrace of a lover,
nay,
only the dead now,
only the dead shall I clutch,
in my frost bitten arms.
only the dead shall be spared the ravaging of my unsightly thirst.
Who am I?
Who would know now...
I only now what I am.
Alone,
Proud,
Scared,
And very hungry.