A party to share my promotion
To a postion of power and prestige.
My future bright.
My good fotune ending? Of this I had no notion.

A celebration of successes.
The congratulations of good friends.
The champagne flowed
With the laughter of women in beautiful dresses.

The night wore on, flirting and drinking.
“Good-night!” to friends, a girl on my arm.
A short cab ride…
My apartment. Passions soaring, neither of us thinking.

Suddenly, morning! The sunlight bright.
I shield my eyes and close the curtains,
Then the horror!
She is dead! And I remember nothing of the night!

Her eyes were closed as if she still slept.
Her too pale face in peaceful repose
Denies the blood
From the single, small wound in the center of her chest.