She’s a quiet girl 

Curious and refined 

She gets lost in her books 

Even more in her mind 

 

They say she’s a princess 

They call her Belle 

But she’s just a girl 

Swarming in a fragile shell 

 

Everything changed 

One dark and stormy night 

She forgot who she was 

She was someone she didn’t recognize 

 

The story you’ve heard 

They got it all wrong 

The beast they feared 

Was her all along 

 

She looks in the mirror 

And only sees her flaws 

She tears at her reflection 

With her villainous claws 

 

It’s like happiness is a rose 

Trapped in a glass cage 

There’s no time to catch it 

Plant it before it fades 

 

 

There’s a little darkness in everyone  

Fear and loathing within your walls 

But you have to see the light 

Before the last petal falls 

 

They say she fell in love 

With a monster beyond repair 

But the truth is, she learned to love herself 

She is kind, she is beautiful, she is rare.  

 

- leigha