This was given to me as a school assignement by my english literature teacher. The rules were the following:

= the text should be a poem

= you should create a magical setting

= you should use non-existent words

= it is mandatory for your poem to contain a message

At first I wanted to do something about sexual abuse and how you can survive it using solely the characters from Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar children ( this poem will be available on my profile shortly ) but then I watched Kingdom of Heaven for the 5th time and I decided to mix the two stories, using the scene in which Sybilla poisons Baldwin because it truly is my favorite scene in this movie ( I cry everytime I watch it )... Enjoy !

On cold marble I lay,

Softly caressing his head

On a trembling body he lays,

Trembling for he is dead.

~o~o~

Tears land on his cheeks,

On his eyes,

On his mouth,

Quickly erased by the graze of milk-white hands.

Hands that killed him.

Those hands, are they mine ?

Am I the monster who killed this sweet, innocent child ?

~o~o~

Metal hits the ground.

A whole bottle of poison,

How could I ?

~o~o~

I pick it up, bring it to his ear;

I can almost hear the liquid

Sliding inside his ear.

But the bottle is empty.

Could I be that crazy ?

~o~o~

Echoing through the wall, a loud noise

Brings me back to reality:

Where once stood a marble wall

There is the most beautiful of gardens.

~o~o~

A tall, well-dressed woman

Approaches us:

"My name is Alma Lefay Peregrine,

People of my kind are called Ymbrines.

You might have recognized Heaven _

Isn't it a beautiful garden ?

Here your son I shall bring

Here he'll finally be safe from Hollows

For in Heaven is only peace

So everyone can rest in peace.

Heaven, in fact, is a dreamworld,

Where people play, eat and love.

Your son will be welcome in my household,

For a Peculiar he is:

You might have known him pure and innocent

For his heart is made of gold".

~o~o~

As quickly as it all had appeared

It disappears

And my Baldwin's body with it.

~o~o~

'You did kill him, Sybilla'

Says a voice in the back of my head,

'But you did it because you didn't

Want him to suffer

From being a leper.'

That's it, I hope you guys liked it ! The prose version will be available shortly on my profile too ;-) ( sorry for the formatting, it seems that the iPad version of doesn't support stenzas so far )