Beauty and the Beast

Inspired by "Beauty and the Beast" by Nightwish

 

Welcome, weary wanderer

Rest your head, look around

All desires can be found

Every scent, every sound

Take all you wish, but one fine rose

Ignore their beauty abound.

 

Phantom, so kind to me

Your palace, so stately

This haven has me so intrigued

That gentle scent, so sweet.

But wait, what can that be?

The scent now beckons me

It comes but from the roses red

A red rose for my beauty.

 

You cruel, betraying fiend

I cared for you willingly

I took you in, I trusted thee

I trusted, you betrayed me

You took my rose, I take your soul

Fair payment, nasty thief

 

Please no! Wait and see!

The rose was not for me

But for my daughter, my beauty

Please, take her

Not me.

 

I’ll take your offer sir.

You must stand by your word

Your daughter must be sent to me,

Three days you have, my sir.

If no beauty arrives,

Be sure, my sir, to find

Your life, and your Beauty fine,

I’ll take, your rose shall die.

 

I swear, foul beast, I’ll send

My Beauty, with regrets.

I will send my darling to your gates,

How I love my Beauty to no ends.

 

My father, I cannot go.

This beast, you do not know

He may not harm us if I stay

Oh please! Don’t make me go!

 

My Beauty, you must leave.

Go now, I beg you please?

I do this not for my selfish soul,

I do this in care of your family,

They cannot carry on without me.

 

Goodbye, family, so dear.

This beast gives me no fear

My father, please don’t fret for me,

Oh please, don’t shed one tear.

 

Why hello, sweet beauty.

Please find here all you need.

I provide for you all desires,

But promise me, never leave.

 

Phantom, I can now see

What father wanted for me.

I promise you I will not flee.

Even your ugliness will not make me leave.

Your soul so kindly speaks.

Your words sing so gently.

I will never leave.

 

My Beauty, can you see

The beauty within me?

I love you, Beauty,

Will you marry me?

 

Kind soul, I cannot be.

My frail love, you see

Cannot be shared with one like thee

Kind beast, please set me free.

 

My dear, now you may leave.

But you must return to me.

You must return, now promise here,

Return after one week.

 

I thank you beast, so sweet.

Return after one week.

Your promise is only fair to me.

You loved and cared for me.

 

Dear Beauty, your home at last.

The beast has set you free.

I knew he could not hold you there,

Stay here my Beauty.

 

Father, I must now leave.

I must return to beast.

I cannot stay, I promised, see

To return after one week.

 

My Beauty it has been

Past the day to leave.

My Beauty, you lost count of days

It has been but two weeks.

 

Do not hate me beast!

I returned, late but please

Do not hate me, I did not mean

To stay more than a week.

Beast? Please answer me!

Please listen, I am sorry.

I told you now, I have returned

Where are you, dear beast?

 

Kind soul, you cannot have died!

My selfish wants killed you inside.

I loved your soul, that should be enough,

Yes beast I will marry you,

If your love to me still resides.

 

My beast! You are alive!

I will stay, always reside.

The ugliness can never mask,

Your kind soul inside.

 

My Beauty, I love you still,

You found it in your heart,

To realise that beauty

Comes from within.