No, We Won't

by Sunshine Depression

Poem, Wesley's POV about Fred and Illyria. No rhyme, no meter, pretty much a freeform poem.

I once had something beautiful
It was perfect and shining
She was perfect and shining
And fleeting
And as soon as I got a chance to hold her
She was gone

Not just dead
She was gone

What I believed to be eternal light
Extinguished
In what could have been years
Or mere seconds
Years of watching her suffer
Or seconds of holding her in my arms

The replacement
Is not a replacement

What once was her
Now is something else
The something which extinguished her
Is all I have left of her
Why do I cling
To the creature which destroyed us both?

Human emotions
Are silly things

This thing has her memories
Nothing but electric impulses
Which she can play
As she pleases
They mean nothing to her
Yet they tug at my human emotions

I've begun to call the demon
A 'her' and a 'she'

And now I'm dying
And this creature asks me
If I want her to lie to me
I agree and
She takes the form of
My perfect and shining love

"We'll be together."
No, we won't.