A/N: I couldn't watch the episode "Walk Slowly" without stopping a few times to jot down notes, poetry lines springing to mind as the scenes played. It was quite annoying, seeing as I had to keep stopping the show to write down these lines, yet it worked out for the best. Though I've been writing fics for five years now, I've never done any Beauty and the Beast. I've been toying with the idea of writing a phic, but fear the horror of it. So I put forth a poem instead...

Walk Slowly

A Beauty and the Beast poem

Walk Slowly, for grief is heavy and a hard burden to bear.

Walk Slowly, for dark and light bring back many memories,

and life is hardly ever fair.

You were told your grief is love turned hardship,

But pure has turned to dark in your eyes,

and the weight of reality heedlessly crushes.

Crushed is your heart, soul, being,

thoughts paralyze and trapped in your mind

as memories continue to rush.

Haunted is you every dream,

Her voice calls forth to you.

As the demons in yourself begin to creep back.

You fight your demons solo now;

Now that her radiating love and courage is no longer there to guide you

back to the light.

But just as your darkness starts to overcome and demolish your light,

a new voice fills your head.

A voice that started out as only a heart beat in your ears,

Now it beckons you, begs for you to bring him back home.

And now you set your mind to find your everlasting link to her,

for now you realize at least not all hope is dead...