Me and Belle

Remember Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast?

Remember the opening song?

Remember the reprise of the opening song?

'He asked me to marry him! Me! The wife of that boorish, brainless...'

'Madame Gaston Can't you just see it?

Madame Gaston, his little wife!

No sir, not me, I guarantee it!

I want much more than this provincial life!

'I want adventure in the great wide somewhere!

I want it more than I can tell!

And for once it might be grand

To have someone understand

I want so much more than they have planned!'

That's me!

That was me at that age, as a child, as a teenager, as a young adult

With a dreamy far-off look, and his nose stuck in a book

I was just like Belle!

I still am!

The only difference- I have found all those adventures!

If you look hard enough, long enough, you will find them!

And you can find them in the pages of my stories!

(On my Deviantart page.)

That was me!

I was just like Belle!

Only now, I am Belle at the end of the movie- when she has found her adventures in the great wide somewhere!

God loves you!

Sincerely,

David S. Annderson