1Poems from the perspective of Remus J. Lupin. Any reference to a person is not specific; a particular person was not in mind.

Nothing Can Be Everything

The full moon shines

My human nature fails

I feel devoid of self

I can be nothing or everything:

Nothing that you want

Everything that you desire

Foreign feelings possess me;

Strange sensations

Laugh at me, for I know not what I am

Moonlit Demise

The West blushes, and the East is dressed in a deep velvet blue.

While all are resting their weary heads, you appear again to call your sleepy beast.

As if they are my last moments alive, I take advantage of those few scarlet rays that remain.

The moments after which, I am lowered again to the darkness of my soul.

Oh clouds! that you may break my torturous night!

Diaphanous moon that my senses are enchanted by, you who drag me to these lost nights, damn you!

Rays like sharpened knives cut me in two.

And I give myself unwillingly to your inexorable influence and feel the rage that transforms my serenity. Immense pain, seeming to last a thousand years.

I Hate You.

I hate you.

I hate you because you laugh at me silently.

I hate you because you are icy cold.

I hate you because you are distant.

I hate you because you hurt me.

I hate you because you are like my death.

I hate you because you do not let me live my life.

I hate you because me you make different.

I hate you because you create a living hell.

I hate you because you never let me shine.

I hate you.

Thoughts of Night

On the paper, my pen scratches rapidly

Blue ink

Blue as the sky of the night

I see the moon appear in my mind's eye

Full with light

Calling me

See the moon who laughs?

Up there, in the sky!

My spirit is disturbed

I think of my misery

Of that which hurts me so

Eternally alone

Until the Day

Moonlight

It reminds me

Of how I suffer

I never forget

It makes me

An ugly thing

That nobody wants to love

It is impossible

To understand

But try

To understand

Because of the moon

I suffer

I need your love

But I have doubts

I fear our love

Being destroyed

By my torture

That my pain

Will grow deeper

I fear

I'll make you cry

Or even try

To kill you

It's possible

I need to be alone now

Go away

Until the day

I'll kiss you

Say my lover

Has touched me

I count the hours

Until the day

When I can speak to you

Until the day

You understand why I suffer

My Partner

Between two cloudy veils it shines;

The object of my eternal pain reveals itself.

In front of this cruel beauty,

So round,

So pure,

I cry.

Devoted and immutable friend,

Your cruelty condemns me

To this painful celestial privilege.

An animal is born;

Avid, monstrous and brutal.

It tastes my blood and fear,

And I cannot fight.

My cries and sobs are covered by its cries;

My humanity is wrongfully choked by its bestiality;

A prisoner to my own denatured body

I resist and I am broken down.

Once again I test this torment,

And suddenly the tears on my cheeks fall.

The moon is my partner,

And my despair.