The Sugar Skull Ballerina (A Poem in Story)

A Poem in Story...
Beneath the fractured chandeliers of Paris, where velvet seats lie empty and the Seine whispers secrets of the drowned, a ballet dancer takes the stage. Her name is Jasmine, once a radiant ballerina, now a ghost bound to sweet silence. With hair dark as midnight, eyes the hue of sapphires drowned, and skin pale as frost, she moves in endless grace. Yet her beauty hides a truth too terrible to bear... the Sugar Skull crowns her face, and dark roses of death bloom upon her brow...
When Etienne, a poet of shadows and graveyards, discovers Jasmine's midnight waltz, he is drawn into a love that defies time, reason, and mortality. Together they wander the opera's ruins, the cemeteries of Paris, and the haunting edges of memory, their love deepening even as the truth unravels...
Jasmine is long dead, her dance condemned to the sweet silence of eternity...
Told in lyrical, rhymed verse, The Sugar Skull Ballerina is a gothic, romantic, epic poem of haunting romance and such sorrow. It is a tale of dark roses and sugar skulls, of a love that burns beyond death but cannot escape it...
For those who love gothic romance, lyrical tragedy, and stories that echo like forgotten operas, this poem in story will linger long after the curtain falls...