How long must I wait?
How long until I discover
The truest meaning
Of truest love?

O my heart, it longs for thee.
I see thy face in clouds and in
The eye inside my mind.
I feel thy apparition arms
Wrap around me in ghostly embrace.

How long must I wait?
How long until I discover
The purest meaning
Of purest love?

Patiently I wait, impatiently--
Knowing full well the logic of my case
"Eight and ten and almost one
Is far too short a time to expect
Forever-love to come to be."
But yet this space beside me
Which thou and only thou shalt fill
Is perilously vacant.
Where is my other half? My self, my heart?

How long must I wait?
How long until I discover*

Love?