Here's a little poem I wrote after I read the Throne of Glass series. Of course, the series is far from over, so I won't be giving away any spoilers here. But for those who have read it and enjoyed it as much as I do, you might understand the strain of the poem in Celaena's POV. Enjoy!
Light and Dark
The Darkness in my heart
Untamed, wild, but caged
Like the greatest storm in a glass bottle
Threatening to bleed out
For a thousand years
'Hold it in, control it'
Feeling nothing but the pain in the storm
The Darkness longs for escape
Drop by drop, the bottle fills
The glass cracks and splinters
The storm seethes, restrained for the moment
But with every pulse: pain
The very blood in my veins
Chilled, frozen in the dark
Waves of night crash and foam on the shore
A thousand years of pain
The stake is set, the pyre alight
For the burning of love
The lighting of despair and unending sorrow
The flames rearing
The glass thins, the cracks widen
Darkness seeps through the fissures
There is nothing that can be done to hold it back
If the glass breaks, the world ends
Pain, endless pain
The Darkness is everything
I want to give in, break the glass and be free
But something always stops me
Then a wave crashes
It can hold no longer
The great storm is about to escape
As the glass shatters
Then a light shines
And lo! The glass is not glass
The light turns it into a shell of hardest diamond
Protecting both within and without
The shell is healed
But the Darkness within
Still writhes untamed and angry
The storm builds
Then a voice is heard
Out of the light
'Be free, turn to happiness and hope
Leave behind the night'
And lo! The bottle falls
The diamond holds
But the storm within escapes
A moment of despair
And it is gone
The storm drowns
The Darkness is destroyed
And hope fills the bottle
For light is always stronger than Dark
A thousand years of pain cured by love
Forgotten and forgiven, as the glass turns to diamond
Love and hope conquers all
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