MIDNIGHT PRINCESS

IN AN OCTOBER NIGHTMARE ALMOST ONE YEAR AGO,

ON A SATURDAY EVENING AT AN ANN ARBOR SHOW,

THE FIRST TIME I SAW HER...THAT SAPPHIRE FLAME,

SHE ASKED FOR AN ANSWER...BUT NOT FOR MY NAME.

BUT NOTHING COULD STOP ME FROM DRINKING HER IN,

THE SCREAM OF HER EYES...THE DREAM OF HER SKIN,

I WAS GIVEN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE'D MEET ONCE AGAIN,

IT WAS ONLY A QUESTION OF WHERE AND OF WHEN?

WHEN OUR TIME FINALLY CAME WE EMBRACED AND UNITED,

WE WERE TWO OF A KIND AND COULD NOT BE DIVIDED,

WE CONQUERED THE WORLD AND PROTECTED EACH OTHER,

LIKE A HUSBAND AND WIFE...LIKE A SISTER AND BROTHER.

AND THOUGH THE END OF OUR STORY IS NOT WRITTEN YET,

SHE IS A POWERFUL IMAGE THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET,

A SUBTLE LESSON IN DELIBERATE STARKNESS,

MY MIDNIGHT PRINCESS...OUR LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.

© OCTOBER 10, 1995 By Jason Wright (Menes)

-FOR-

DARLA ANNE DECOOK

CREATIVE, BRILLIANT, AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN SHE KNOWS -