By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 30 December 1999

At Your Service

please don't look at my scars
  tonight I'll be
     Snow White
       for you
pure and new
   a nubile virgin
   a shiny apple
      of sunset hues
never bitten into
a lightweight treasure
  for the palm
    of your hand

please disregard the broken toys
    in my yard
this old dress I have on
   these curlers
    in my hair
tonight I won't be
a grown-up little girl
who wishes her daddy had been
a whole lot sweeter
tonight I will wear
moonbeams for you
I'll be an enchantress
a faerie queen
a piece of soft, pretty light
I'll let my hair flow down
and be your river
you can get lost
in me
and I won't remind you
who you are
and I won't tell you
what I need

please let me do this
      for you
    be this
       to you
I want to give
you only have to take
and it will be easy
and you won't have to
   thank me