Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Dragoon or anything associated with the aforementioned game. Standard disclaimer and all that good stuff because you never know who's going to be anal and screw you over if you don't put it in there.
Author's Note: While spending the wee hours of the morning doing nothing at all, really, and caught within the throes of yet another bout of insomnia, an idea came to mind when I heard a song that seemed to fit Rose perfectly. So while listening I absently started jotting down notes, and somehow (don't ask how because I really don't know) it turned into a poetry piece. Which is something I never do. Ever.
Anyway, I thought I'd give it a try regardless seeing as how I haven't posted anything else for the longest time. It's only a oneshot, obviously about Rose's feelings about being the Black Monster. I'm no good at poetry, but I figured hey, what the hell.
Heart of a Monster
A Tribute to Rose
Forever suspended
'tween the heavens and earth
Dreadful and looming
vessel of the harbinger's birth
Eternally watching
an eyesore, a curse
Fated doom of the world
but for better or worse?
They call me demon,
heartless and evil yet still
I blame them not
Only with despair my soul fills
For again when it comes,
that horrid blood glow hue
The monster sets out
intent to do
A thing so unholy,
so cruel and so cold
This pain forever
my black heart will hold
Along with the loneliness
I have come to know
No return from the nothing
in which I find myself thrown
All the pain that I've caused,
all the killing I've done
Truly a Monster
I have become
I regret every moment
I lament and I mourn
yet it stops haunting me not
and still I am torn
Between the courage to live
and the peace that death brings
Do I choose to endure
or escape on death's wings?
Never an end to the torment
No salvation it seems
I desperately pray for release
but it shall never be
Thus once more it comes,
blood glow bathing the world
By my monstrous hand
black death be unfurled
With every transgression
each life I take and each sin
I damn myself further
and die more within
To exist without time
a fate so empty and bleak
Living only to kill
my heart grows so weak
For all that I've lost
my life, cherished friends, and my love
I curse you, cruel goddess
and your damned fruit hung above
But I am left with no choice
but to suffer on my own
and succumb to my darkness
For now it is all that I know
Fin