Inspired by Interview with a Vampire. What if Claudia resented Louis for what he did?
I am lost to him
Like a mirror
I offer no reflection
My Louis, what did you hope to find?
You scour your thoughts
for the tattered pieces of your life
I’m tired, he said
Then end it, I told him
It’s your choice
It always has been
I was your choice
not my own
Me
You called me your child?
I was a child
but pretty dolls and music lessons
were not me
But you are my child…
Am I?
Was I rescued?
Maybe
but then again, no
That life was not me
I didn’t know me
You took me
before I found out
I had to start again
Try to find Me
But I was not lost
not like you
You are exposed
You are weakness and sorrow
I was to be you
but I chose not to
Not out of anger
I have no time for that
But then again
Myself and Time
are intertwined
in the endless dance
Am I sad?
No
I am nothing but existence
as I was traded from one life
for another
Your rest has come
and with it
I will now become you
Just as you wanted
Until I too, come to that day
When I find my own
and give her no choice
but to be me
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