The Collected Tales

Undeniably You

You asked me once

why I chose to stay

in this place that Time

abandoned.

A place

where every bone and fiber

compels me to run far,

far away.

But I am no longer

the disillusioned shell,

the music box that fell apart--

I am both heaven and hell.

My tears have turned to ashes

as I embraced your fiery skies.

I faced the raging tempest,

the darkness in your eyes.

I know,

I know in my heart

why I chose to stay--

In the dying rose,

the briars and thorns,

I have found the lost part

that once was true.

Deep in the tangled shadows,

the part that is

undeniably You.

✧☽ ✧ 🌹 ✧ ☽ ✧

Inspired by the tale,

Beauty and the Beast