She's a poet and she doesn't know it

I love poetry.

Not that I am any good at it, but I love to read it.  Recently I bought she walks in beauty, selected and introducted by Caroline Kennedy. At my leisure, I can peruse this book and get my fill of good poetry.   Two of the characters from Immortal Obsession write love letters to one another and sometimes, poetry.  Josette and Christian meet in the summer of 1787.  Although their social circles bring them together, the nature of their personal circumstances keeps them a part until eventually they abandon their lovers for one another.  This decision has long reaching reprocussions for each of them….but that is another tale. 

So, I went digging through the diaries of Josette Delacore, the mortal lover of my vampire Christian Du Maure and with her permission,  I found this poem and thought I would share it with you.

I catch sideward glances of you,

your face shadowed in candlight across the room.

Do you do the same?

I believe so and my heart beats faster just knowing it.

We nod, wave and smile to one another,

Surrounded by strangers.

Who are you I ask myself.

Do you have a wife, children, a mistress?

Would you like one?

Are you as bored here as I am?

Dreaming of stolen moments.

So many questions fill my thoughts

though I try not to stare.

Yet when your dark eyes meet mine

I feel both lost yet glad to be home.