…As He Waits for the Sun to Rise

Image by Fondazione Cariplo.A man without love
is a man without a flag to fly,
a shiftless phantasm
in this waking, moving world.

He is an incomplete puzzle,
a riddle waiting to be solved,
a boat without a captain,
adrift in choppy, turbid waters.

He is a lone wolf
howling at the distant moon,
a solitary figure staring down at the city
from a barren mountain above…

So close, yet so far,
his heart, squirming underneath his skin,
beats for, what is now,
beyond his extended reach.

A man unlucky in love
sings a song of optimism,
reads a book of romantic prose,
as he waits for the sun to rise.

©2012 José-Ariel Cuevas