For Gabrielle-the-Princess-head

You walked past the pillars
and the foyer brightened
even though you were wearing black.
you're just like that.
October's getting colder,
and it rained all day,
but even when your hands are cold,
i want to hold them.
you're just like that.
Everyone else sits around on Friday night
petulent,looking for thrills
or movies or somehthing.
so do you, but you're cheerful about it,
because...
...because you're just like that princess
in the fairytales
locked up in a tower
hemmed in by thorny trees
trapped...but singing so loud that the forest
echoes
with sweetness.
Don't worry baby. One day the right horse-backed boy will
ride down the trail
and hear your song.
then you can let down your princess hair and sing louder.
BUT UNTIL THEN
keep walking out of the dark October rain
and into my life
because
i need you
just like that.