Author's note: Well, I got two lovely reviews, so I've decided to upload a couple more poems. Hope you guys like them, again inspired by the Y/K version, musical and movie. Both are from Erik's perspective. Please review!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: POTO is public domain, Yeston and Kopit own this particular version. I own only the poems. Savvy?
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THAT BRIEF, SWEET MOMENT
She says she can look at my face;
Oh, I want to believe her.
She says she can love my face,
And for a moment, I believe her.
I start to untie the mask,
A thousand emotions running through me.
She watches my trembling hands;
For I am terrified at this moment.
But her eyes reassure me,
And I start to hope.
Hope she will see beyond my face,
For much longer than a moment.
But as I take the mask away
From my cursed face,
She stares in horror and trembles,
And faints within a moment.
My world shatters,
My heart breaks;
And I start to cry,
All within a moment.
Why on this cruel earth
Did I listen?
And let my guard down
For that brief, sweet moment?
MY WORLD
I was a handsome king
Or a brave knight;
The kind that wins the fair maiden's hand,
Here in my world.
I could slay dragons
And defeat evil wizards
And save the fair maiden
Here in my world.
But one day my illusions were shattered,
My fantasies destroyed,
By the fair maiden I loved,
Here, in my world.