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Helena Awakened
Zoe Burke
And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
Mine own, and not my own.
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- Helena from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The nightmare over, our lives
ended with a double-wedding--
yet I dare not open my eyes
in the fear I am still dreaming.
Hermia would lose nothing, but I
would lose everything, again. And
Demetrius, he would see how much
he's lost. I found a fairy in the garden,
and I was afraid. But he bade me hush
and drew me in with the promise of a
spritely secret, a marital secret called
love-in-idleness. What if one dose
wasn’t a cure for love-by-idollness?
Plucking pansy petal after petal in the kettle,
he loves me, he loves me, he loves me. I was
once his spaniel,
but never will I be his bitch.
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