LADY MIDNIGHT ― Tom Riddle

𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡

───────── • ✧ • ─────────

𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉

❛  the lord and his lady  ❜

───────── • ✧ • ─────────

𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒆

𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒓

❝ Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword! ❞

❝ Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold. ❞

𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒆

𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏

❝ Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die. ❞

 ❝And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry,
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die. ❞

𝒏𝒐. 

𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆.