I Fell in Love with a Ghost*

That night, when sunset cast deep shadows

there, under the lamplight I saw eyes

that met mine from a hazy shape, low.

So deep entwined did our souls become

our hearts beat in my ears and my spirit

soared, like a lost seagull missing the boat

sailing off toward the Northern pole pit.

I knew then, you had died someplace cold.

I will be forever old. Lost in time, deprived

no one to grow close to, no one to grow old

with children and house, only a moment

then you were gone.

*first line from Luthien's poem