Le Fantome

A stark, white mask illuminates pressing darkness.

Born into the filth of ugliness, hate and fear, enduring a life of

Mockery by hideous sneering faces.

He is a genius bound in infamy, tormented by his hideous deformity.

His damp, musty abode reeks of genius and inspiration-

A heaven conceived from the darkness of hell.

Untouched by mankind's plague of hypocrisy and revulsion.

A light. She, his angel, flames his genius.

She embodies his music: dark, passionate, and delicate.

Every breath, thought, and dream bears the image of her perfect ivory

Countenance framed by silken chestnut curls.

Terror restrains his longing to reveal his forbidden, dark love.

Her naïve mind dreams he is an Angel of Music- a divine messenger.

To the world, he is a murderous demon.

Mankind ignorantly imprisoned him in his cryptic world of secrecy where

He loves, composes, and covets normalcy.

And yet, he is destined for loneliness.

A confined, tortured soul robed in shadows. Waiting.

Emily Kitchen

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