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2025-09-10
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The Love Song of Edward A. Cullen

Summary:

You beg for immortality
But I shall not relent
My heroin is humanity
And humanity is your scent

A poem describing Edward’s human addiction. The thought process behind this was, “What if fictional characters had poems written from their perspective?”

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

My Isabelle, my Heroine
Of our own disturbing tale
A maiden pure of thought and blood
A maiden young and pale

I forced myself to stay away
I bid our love adieu
In my haste forgetting
That I was heroin for you

And now we live in hopeless love
And riveting despair
My very kiss is poison
But you fly too high to care

A bell, a ring, in some form
The bells will ring for us
A wedding or a funeral
The same amount of fuss

You beg for immortality
But I shall not relent
My heroin is humanity
And humanity is your scent

With every hammer of your pulse,
I hear blood’s beguiling sigh:
“Eat, eat me, Soul,
And thou shalt never die”

Little lamb, God bless thee
Little lamb, God bless thee

Notes:

The line in quotations and the last two lines are pulled from “Meditation 8” by the preacher Edward Taylor. Taylor was writing about the Bread of Life, and given the weird religious symbolism in Twilight and our Edward’s *ahem* diet, I couldn’t resist the irony of adding it.