I see your eager smile
Playing at the corner of your lips
A tender reminder of your past image
Before I saw the true you.

I see your bright silver eyes
Dancing in the sunlight
A heartfelt reminder
Of the red that tinted them last night.

I hear your calming voice
Subduing those around in rhythm
The regretful reminder
Of the fierce growls rumbling through the previous night.

I see your smooth slow pace
Matching those around you perfectly
A sorrowful reminder that you’re not the same;
A reminder of the fierce lightning reactions before.

I see your calmness
Reflecting off those around you
An interrupting reminder
To the vicious monster you portrayed in my nightmare.

I wish it was a nightmare;
I wish I hadn’t seen.

I know I had seen,
By the gentle way you handled me today,
Unnerving, wondering,
If I believed it to be false.

There is no such nightmare
That shakes a perspective like that of your
Monstrous tendancies –
There is no dream that lets you stare
Into a Vampire’s heart.