Watching your joy together
in places I've never known
I wonder why you
remain
with one such as I.
What holds you fast within
my cold passionless home?
When other
wonders
delight you so.
Do you stay for my sake,
loathe to leave any behind
in the frozen
solitude
of these desolate plains?
Do you recall my younger days
when I was other than I am
some other life
when brighter suns
lit my heart and stirred my limbs
Is it for remembrance sake
that you linger still
hopeful for some far
off spring
to awaken sleeping dreams
Then for our joint remembrance
leave this desolate hearth
and then in
future times of joy
recall me here and wish me well
