Behold! My epic return from the depths of NaNoWriMo and private school!
Okay. So. This is part of a series of poems I'm writing around Pretty Little Lucifer, because it's been staring at me from inside of three folders begging to have something done with it. It spawned many plot bunnies that have been knawing on my brain for a while now. I may or may not post all of series on here when it's finished. This installment is set when both characters are around nine/ten years old.
Little girl dance in the sun,
Wild flowers woven in her hair.
You watch her greedily from the shadows,
This pretty little thing that fascinates you
(You’ve always liked forbidden things)
She takes your hand, tugging you into her light.
You spin her in a perfect circle.
The sound of her giggle makes you grin.
(But when you blink, she’s gone)
Just like magic.
When you have to escape,
(Daddy’s drinking again)
You climb the tree in the playground and watch her try to fly.
She spreads her arms,
Falling slowly down to earth,
And you trace the shape of wings on her back
With deft fingers in the air.
When you see nine candles on a cake,
Lips pressed to hair and blinding smiles,
And you realize she is loved.
You look in the mirror,
And it’s not an angel you see there.
(You close your eyes so that you almost disappear)
The night you “fall down the stairs,"
She stares with wide eyes,
Reaching out to touch a darkening bruise.
You flinch away.
Because you get it now;
You’re dirty, tainted, damaged.
You’re lost.
And you don’t want to infect her too.
(It’s time to embrace it now, devil boy)
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