in the mountains
of Tennessee
a man yearns
night and day
he yearns
for a woman
who is on
a shore so far away

his yearning
for her never abates
for her tender soft touch
he waits and waits

within his core
the yearning
for her is so raw
every waking moment
it gnaws and gnaws

yearning
to feel her body
pressed close to his
as it warms
his lonely soul
with its welcoming
kiss

he hopes
one day to have
the woman
he so yearns for
calling upon his
desolate mountain door