Hunger

Someone will bring you water
someone will buy you flowers
and you'll dream of landscapes
and while away your frilly hours

Someone will get the phone
and say you're not at home
and indeed you will just travel
right into the pleasure dome

     who'll lull the hunger
     salvage the pain
     that lasts much longer
     than what hope gains ?

And here you are, agony
and here it is, mystery
tell me what you salvaged
probing into misery ?

and here you are and wonder
about the images gone by
with your life torn asunder
in the mirrors of her eyes

        refr.


1988