By Emily Radebaugh…

Black eyed beauty

Shackled in Hell’s embrace

Surrounded by screams

So intense

They shake the ground

She menacingly

Stands upon

She traded her sanity

For madness

She relinquished

Her love

For smoke and daggers

The water in her veins

Evaporated in the fire

She fell to ashes

And rose to power

Like a ghostly phoenix

A dangerous entity

Tormenting others

Torturing herself

Falling further

Into vicious and greedy

Delusions of grandeur

Deadly

She shattered her chains

Broke free

From her white box

Only to become warden

Of a prison so pitch-black

It cannot ever find the light