| Love is a ghost in a room |
| when she has turned away into the empty night. |
| Love will make you wait to be found. It carries you home. |
| On her island there is no horizon line, |
| only endless sea going up, becoming sky. |
| Who is the shadow in the corner of her eye? |
| It speaks in a language of smoke and pale heavy air. |
| It says, «Lover, you are tired and falling, crawling.» |
| It says, «Lover, you are alone in misery.» |
| For you are a blur, disconnected in memory. |
| And everything you carry weighs on you like misery. |
| She’d love to fly but the sky don’t care. |
| She’d love to fly but the sky won’t hold her. |
| From a great height, she falls past gravity, |
| through the blue of the sea, |
| to the island she’s made. |
| She waits. |
| The little girl wonder, like spring and all is splendor, |
| has caught a ride to yesterday. |
| They’ve been shepherded on home. |
| Lover, where have you gone? |
| Have you gone? |