Looking at her from a distance
She drinks her tea
As she gazes through the window
Admiring the botanical gardening
Which blossom every spring
She awaits
For my return from sea
Voyaging across the ocean
I'm terrified
By my conditions
A disfigurement of fatality
I was once a handsome man
Writing her many letters of love
Now
Remoteness is my only friend
How can she love a bewildered creature?
Hidden in my heart
Is a love
To this woman
Who sips with a soul of hope?