by Jonah Webster

 

Fog lights tear through

A humid night

My vision has always

Underestimated the rain;

Somewhere, she sits

lonely

In a dark room

Her emerald eyes

Staring at a screen

And wishing for me,

I travel a road of many

Wanderers, salesman,

Clergymen, and thieves

On a gilded path inlaid

With cantaloupe and plum,

I am known to be wrong;

But I alone hear the drum

Of the frogs to the moon

Through the air, and

I think I see her waiting now,

Despite my poor sight

Fog lights tear through

A humid night


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