A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, d3 - poetry collection with contains poems on multiple characters or scenes
One Page of Fame
1: Light
He's the tragic genius as they say, the man who had fifteen minutes of fame but wound up taking half an hour and now he's a rose that's rotten to the core and there isn't a speck of pollen left to germinate another rosebush from
And that's such a shame because he was a one of a kind rose as well, or perhaps it's more accurate to say he's a two of a kind rose and the other of his kind is the rival he strove far too hard to beat and wound up cheating for – But then again they say all's fair in love and war and this is a bit of both because equals are so hard to find when you're at the top of the food chain and you've eaten everyone else
And he's become a hungry little carnivore growing too big for his boots or rather too big for his belt and little black book whose pages never seem to run out because that's how black holes work and he's long ago unknowingly opened one's door and now he feeds it until he's nothing but a stripped bare skeleton with a swollen stomach and sunken cheeks and eyes until he's so badly malnourished all the vitamins in the world aren't going to set him back straight
But the lines of the tale that lead to his tragedy were already written, in the first line of his script.