Shadows of the road that led me

To your door at night possess me

Never sleeping, always thinking

Never waking, slowly sinking.

Must I wait for night to call me?

Must I fight this mind that stalls me?

Won’t my spirit give me wings

To fly beyond my reasoned things?

My heart is yearning, ever burning

As I think of my returning

To the doorway of our meeting

Hoping, praying that you’re feeling.

But the daylight snuffs the candle,

And the pain I bare can handle

Steals the space that held the thought

Of treasured moments long I’d sought.

Let me try now to remember

How our meeting left to render

Me unable to forget

The night two tender spirits met.

A darkened road, lonely leading

To the inn, our fate of meeting.

Weary from an endless travel

Felt my mind a tortured ravel.

Whispers from a candle glowing

Called to fill my mind full knowing.

At the desk an old attendant

Passed a key that held a pendant.

In my room a warming presence

Came me over with a pleasance.

Stirred afresh a buried hunger

Lost, I thought, to days much younger.

The man yet old but clear and stable

Led me to the lighted table.

Seeming he, anticipating

Something for my soul was waiting.

The hall but darkened met the light,

Your shadow came into my sight.

And suddenly I felt inside

The mystery left none to hide.

Around your neck a golden pendant

Like the one that on my key went.

Founding joy from consternation

Cutting swaths of inspiration.

Symbols of a strong connection

Galvanized our strange affection.

Ghosts then set my trembling free

And filled this lonely void in me.

So I from this lighted table

Asked you join my seeming fable.

Sat we there for all the night,

And spoke our spirits ‘til the light.

Break of day that snuffed our candle

Spoke a pain I bare can handle.

Stealing space that held the thought

Of treasured moments long I’d sought.

My heart left yearning ever burning

As I think of my returning,

To the doorway of our meeting,

Hoping, praying that you’re feeling.