The Enchanted Rose
Picked from the finest bush
and blessed with a glorious fate,
passed from One to Another
only to be stowed away
in a faceless glass
in a nameless place…
Never wilting and told to await
the one who could find love
in the wretched Beast’s hate.
Fresh-petaled with one thorn
blooming anew each day
until his twenty-first year
the Beast barely strayed…
In the empty halls, all alone
by the window he remained
begging for another time,
another way.
For as my petals began falling
all hope had been slain.
On one snowy afternoon
a disturbance came about,
my Beast arose suddenly
and was never to be found.
My stem grew frail
and as Time withered
the doors finally opened-
‘twas a stranger, a visitor.
As the belle wandered ‘round
lovely features graced her
curiosity shone through
as she caressed my chamber
Alas with a sound from below,
away went my inquisitor.
Time and beauty are now expired,
truly rotten to the core,
my last petal falls
but as it wafts to the floor
I know the curse matters no longer:
my Beast will love forevermore.