Carlisle finally manages to bring his gaze Poison's way; his expression is pensive, his tone somber.

"I exist," he replies after a pause. "I am a coward, and have been all my life. I am a failure, a shame to my bloodline. I am an abomination, a monster-to-be."

Though he has a tendency to speak in poetic terms, he is being terribly literal this time around.