Janice
Dark hair framing soft unblemished skin.
That is you,
Unknown.
Dazzled by lights on the Grand Canal,
Seeing and unseeing with thine eyes,
Green,
And cold,
And hard.
Unloving and unknowing,
And understanding not
That I,
With you before
Mine eyes
Must wait impatiently
For they
In the purple mist
On the Grand Canal
I love
You.
Everywhere
You seem to be.
I persevere,
Just as before,
When you were mine
And I
Thine
Before The gods fought.
Return,
I miss
You
Janice.
© Michael J. Mason 1970