A Love Song

I lie here next to you

thinking of you

frost at midnight

in my heart

there is no light

is it anger

or is it need

you far off there

probably dreaming

you married

someone

you never met

I don’t want

to look like him

so I put on my shoes

each day

and lumber

out the black door

scaring the lake

Emily Dickinson

once said why

she never married

no one listened

she was always

far away

like England

where I’ve never been

why did you say

I love you but

it’s true

there’s a blue tower

in my mind

away from you

where I must go