This is a poem I wrote that kind-of ties into the Erik/Christine romance-tragedy. I wrote it based on my own life, then I realized it was perfect for the POTO story line. It fits in at the end of the ALW movie, when Christine chooses Raoul over Erik, and it's a soliloquy-type free verse from Erik's point of view. I hope you like it.
Forgotten
Christine, I would have loved.
Oh, God, how I would have loved you,
If you had given me the chance,
If you had given me time.
I tried. How I did try
To sway your favor,
To win your passion, but
Always I was spurned.
I never could seem to be
Enough, for you;
Strong enough, dark enough,
Passionate or bold enough.
And so I waited, and watched,
And loved with my entire being.
Saw you love another.
Felt my heart breaking.
For you did not know,
You never understood
How I felt for you, and still feel,
Though I so often tried to show you.
So I saw you from afar,
Just a shadow, always near,
Until you moved away, moved on,
And I was left, heart shattered, behind.
Sometimes I think of you still,
Heart hammering in my chest,
Tears sliding softly down
Past grim and silent lips.
And I curse your name,
Even as I hold you dear to me,
As I think of times we had,
And times that never were.
Christine, I would have loved.
Oh, God, how I would have loved you,
If you had given me the chance,
If you had given me time.
But you have gone,
And I am lost.
Nothing is as it should have been.
Because I would have loved.
And you did not.