IN THE NIGHT

Photo by S. Auberle

IN THE NIGHT

Somewhere tonight, under the sultry moon,
a man and woman are dancing the tango.

Somewhere, side by side, they're throwing pots,
baking bread together, making babies,

writing love poems on a Greek isle,
feeding each other sweet cherries and wine.

A woman wakes in the middle of the night,
thinks of these things, and scrawls words in the dark,

then lays her head back upon the hot pillow
and hears a steady rhythmic sound, a low drum

in the night. It's the lake, the burning stars,
it is her heartbeat. In the morning she wakes,

smiling, believing it all a dream, except
for the scribbled words...oh love, here is my heart.

- mimi