A/N: This is just something I was inspired to write after watching the Buffy episode "Entropy". This is my first attempt at poetry, so let me know what you think.
Monsters and Fairy Tales
The Slayer and The Vampire
Sounds like a bedtime story told to scare children who are bad
It's a fairy tale all right, but with blood and gore and without the happy ending
God, did I try to fight it
I'm supposed to hate her, not love her
It's not like she encouraged me
She tries hard to pretend I'm nothing – and sometimes even I believe it
She's supposed to rid the world of evil things like me,
So if I am nothing to her, why hasn't ended my reign of immortality
She can be colder than the dead when she wants to
Then she has these moments where she shows me more passion then I ever knew when I was alive
She says its only real for me
A lie, she tells
She's too scared to admit she might actually love me, a murderer for most of my immortal life
Too afraid of the disgusted looks her friends would give her
Ashamed, for allowing herself to care for such a vile fiend
If only her precious Scooby's knew the real Buffy Summers
A craver of danger and excitement, that's what she is
Normal men aren't enough for her
She came to me because I understand her better than the others ever will
I satisfy her needs
She'd deny it all, of course,
That's her way
I look at her and see a chance for redemption
She looks at me and sees a soulless monster
But even monsters can change