Waiting in the Wings

(Short poem-style beauty and the beast/ phantom crossover. I do not own any of these characters. Enjoy.)

Once upon a time

Is just another wish

Made by fools

With hope left to wait on

Another useless plea

Begging for a better tomorrow

I have no once upon a time

No happily ever after

Only the shadows and shade

I dance on the edge of faerytales

Behind my mask

In my west wing

Hiding behind the roses

Using them to buy her love for me

But there's always another

I always taste defeat

Because nobody could love a beast

I hide my face from their view

So beautiful

The object of my desire

To make up for my hideousness

The atrocity that is me

Immortal

Not human

Not living

Not dying

Simply forever waiting

For somebody to love me

I sit here

Behind my mask

Waiting in the wings.