"My Love Begins with You" Inspired by The Phantom of the Opera:

My Love Begins with You

I had a plan.

A plan that she would not follow.

She was not supposed to see me,

yet, after seeing my face,

she still promised to return.

I didn’t think she’d agree to marry me,

yet, she did,

sacrificing herself for others.

She stayed with me,

fulfilling her promise,

and didn’t flinch at my touch.

Her love grew to include me.

She was the beginning and the end of my love,

but I was not the beginning of hers.

In the end,

my plan failed

because I let her go.

She promised to keep the ring I gave her,

and I sent her away

with him who was

the beginning and the end of her love.

She promised she would come back

after my death

to return to me the ring she wore,

and thus I would be buried

with a piece of her I didn’t deserve

in life or death

but that she still gave out of love.


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