She

She was once beautiful beyond compare

A creature of the night roaming the darkened halls

Spotlight; stop, all heads turn

She pauses waiting for the swell of music

It washes over her like cool rain

Her voice instills the smoke filled room with a sweet despair

Bright she seems, illustrious object

Untouchable, despised and wanted, light and dark

Incomparable extremes, treated with contempt

She cries at night trying to forget

Wasting away, another lost soul