Ice Black

I was not born on a day white with snow.  

The black sky toiled and ice fell sharp.  

No mere human was I, nor did I wish a beau.  

A goblin wants to be alone, though she is poor.

My father wished me to marry to gain money.

Not much dowry had I to give the human,

Not possessing beauty, he thought me ugly.

But I betrayed my goblin ways and loved him.

No longer caring for me, he swore to leave.

And so I stabbed and plucked and made his sight dim.

His human keepers of the peace found me and gave me pain.

They let me choose my demise and I swore poison.

I took it in food, an apple was my bane.

Darkness came for me, for Ice Black,

In death I lay, but still I loved.

For goblin ways are strange indeed,

And how I wished my human back.

It seems to me he heard my plea,

For next I knew, his lips on mine.

“I love thee for thy soul, not thy beauty,” said he.

And I woke quickly and was thus set free.