TO MY UNSEEN LOVE
by Michael Langston

I’ve never looked upon your face;
  I do not know your name;
And in some unseen distant place,
  I know you will remain
Forever kept apart from me
  Across both space and time;
I hope someday these words you’ll see,
  By chance that you will find
Within this old and worn-out book
  The fact so plain and true:
That all my life in vain I looked…
  In vain I searched for you.

I’d sit beneath the moonlit skies
  In summer’s warm night air
And dream of looking in your eyes,
  Of you beside me there;
And as I walked, in fantasy
  I gently held your hand,
But in the moonlight next to me:
  No one there did stand;
And if I could, I would have flown
  Across all time and space
And left behind my world I’d known…
  And you, my love, embrace.