Cyrano

"So Cyrano", I asked, so many years ago. "Do you miss your love on these darkest nights?" We were passing time during a battle's lull. I, had long known his most secret thoughts, although in the dark I could not see his face I could feel the pain that I knew was there. Pain twin to mine, but longer in time and space. Asking only because I too missed a loved one here. The answer came as from a roiling cauldron. "I know who I am and how I am seen by others. I know this world's values and on me it would frown to see my ugly visage next to one who gathers the world's virtues around her. I work, I battle, great things I plan in vain hope to change the man I am." We all have our Roxanne.