I'm a princess, dainty and fair
with piercing grey eyes and flowing black hair
I'm locked inside this, my top-tower lair
Kept locked away, like a china doll
Just so from virtue I will not fall
Up here I'm so alone
locked inside my cage of stone
The wind blows in, chilling me to the bone
As I sit here, in my makeshift oubliette
Searching, remembering memories to forget
At night I'm so lonely, stuck in my cell
I cry out for release to no avail
The corridors echo my desparate wail
I beg to the gods for some grand relief
and some haggard crone appears, to my disbelief
With cackling, sour voice she tells me that
she'll cast a spell on me and every night, when the moon is fat
My torment will lessen, for I'll become a cat
From the top of my ivy-choked tower
I can descend at the midnight hour
With feline form and an ache for true love
I search for some other sad soul to befriend and belove
Away from my tower, there's so much to be seen, not from above
With padded-paws leaving footprints in the dirt
I spot another so fair it makes my eyes hurt
He is what I have dreamed of so long
I have heard him from my tower, meowing his lonesome song
How can a love so solid and pure be wrong?
We meet face to face, and a nose-rub, a purr
We become fervent lovers, in a sable entwine of fur
Our wonderful trysts are awaited, on every full moon
My lover's my only light amidst the dark gloom
I count down the time til we'll be together, it's soon
Maybe this time, I won't come back
I'll stay with my lover, my rogue tomcat

05/23/2002

Posted on 05/23/2002
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