Beauty Sleeps Entombed

beauty lays her head upon a pillow
wrapped in silk
in a darkened chamber
which shadows can't conceal


restless in her bed
clad in a linen gown of white
with a sigh beauty wipes her eyes
at another sleepless night


on the walls inside her head
shadows start to taunt
familiar ghosts of times
past returning for a haunt


alone she lays upon the bed that
she so lovingly shares
upon the walls the shadows dance
into the dark she stares


in another time when beauty cried
her comfort was at hand
a simple shift of her hips
and she could touch her man


now too many times beauty knows
that she must lie alone
wishing that her man was there
for her to touch and hold

she wonders if her man
will ever come back to her
expressed outloud with her voice
and written it her in words


she knows for sure that he is here
just destracted by the dark
but she wishes that she could help
lift the shadows off his heart


beauty sleeps entombed
by the darkness he creates
wishing so much
that she could help him escape


so in the dark while she sleeps
her mind is wide awake
longing for the man she loves
to share the bed they've made