By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 2 December 1997

Before

  Once Upon a Love Song
      Way Before
   My Days of Tribulation
      as a giddy whore
     I had something
  something more
  
     there was no time
       and there was no space
      as my One True Love held me
      in a Soul Embrace
    beneath a starry sky
      on a deep October night
     I breathed Him in
   as He held me tight

    I remember feeling that I had 
       finally found Home
    lured in by his certainty
        and Obsession cologne
   
 now He is the voice on the Phone
     miles away
  as I wither and crumble
   and inevitably decay

so much Road traveled since
   the stars cannot compete
  with my broken prints
hence I falter and to Fate implore
 to transport me back
  to that Silver Before.