Hello, my readers! This has all ready been posted twice- once as a one-shot, once in a collection of one-shots. Yet here I am, posting it again. Mostly because I miss having my work spread out, where I can see it. That said, please read it again and review.

Disclaimer; not mine, I was just bored and decided to write it

Bellatrix Black; free

Wrapped in the cloak of the night Glimmering in a dark light She stands regal and proud Her presence like a ominous cloud

She is devoted, that she knows And one days she knows the world will show But why? she asks herself one night Why did I follow and not take flight?

Her nature is not to bow at all Least her lord take a fall But just this ones she fell astray And bowed to a lord that evil does lay

Why did I follow him? She thinks She looks at her future, dark and bleak In a cell of Azkaban she sleeps Because she followed like a sheep

She believes she'll get out one day She is sure her lord will find a way The mark is growing darker now And all she can wonder is why and how

Once she would not have submitted But now she knows why and she must admit it She joined his ranks and bowed to him Because it was a cause she believed in

She could say that it was to live So that she would not die or have to give But if that was so, she knows she would not Have gone to Azkaban for him to rot

No, she realizes, I am true Not I bad thing, like I once assumed I don't care if he wants to rule I will no longer stay impassive and cool

She knows now that she submitted because she believed And as Dementors glide away she realizes this is her leave They have submitted to the Dark Lord as well And so she emerges from her hell hole cell

She is free… Free to the night… Free to her lord… Free to her cause…