"Dead Boy's Poem"

Work: the Phantom of the Opera
Genre: General
Character(s): the Phantom
Rating: PG
Notes: Songfic in a series of vignettes, one or two lines at a time. Lyrics by Nightwish.

The babe is born utterly silent. He is small, a premature birth. The midwife cleans the blood off his face and gasps.

Worriedly, the tired mother asks to see him. She gazes upon her son's face and recoils, weeping in sorrow and disgust. Only then does he begin to cry.