Princess In The Tower

(mid October 2009)

My princess,
So far away locked up in her Russian tower,
Chained by distance.
Break out!
Come! Fly to me!
Let's be together! Here! NOW!
I want this like no other,
Life needs you to be here.

For without you I am one again,
Just a light in darkness,
Candle in wind,
A ship at sea,
In the storm.
Like Truman I know it's not real, it's seated against me,
To prevent me, to turn me away, to stop me.
I cannot fight it but it is there,
To deny me again in my life.
I need to fight, to resist it,
To see through its lie, to break it down,
I cannot do this alone.

Now I sit, I wait,
My questions unanswered, my fate unknown,
Outside a raging city burns,
To consume me, to take me in,
It needs me too.
Will I succumb? Do I need it? Or want?
Must I be here?
So alone in its wind, its fire and ice,
To make it better.

Puzzles a-plenty,
To solve alone, no help,
Well alone I cannot,
I feel, I need to be joined,
To be whole again,
As it once was.
Is she out there waiting?
The ivory tower,
Dragons and monsters attack and surround it,
I have no sword and I still need my prize,
To climb the tower,
"Let down your hair!",
I will come, I will.

But no.