"Not Even Angels"

Work: the Phantom of the Opera
Genre: Angst
Character(s): the Phantom
Rating: PG
A/N: Written after seeing the

Clinging to hopes.

Clinging to lies.

Exalted. Feared.
Mighty in his dreams.
Loved in the most fantastic ones.

Words spoken and sung below.
Betrayal, slow poison, a sunless dawn.
She a pure Judas to him, a twisted Christ.
Forsaken at birth by any semblance of a god.

Holding wretched to a marble limb.
Unseeing eyes hold no answers.
Not even angels can save him.

He is wicked, she in traitorous love, stone angels do not care.
Wings like shrouds rise to an empty heaven with his words.
Cry to the night.
Laughing stars.

All the angels have

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