Claudia Moscovici

The painful poignancy of desire

Waiting for you

Cars, blinking headlights
You could be anywhere
In any car, on any train
In any city, on any road
Everywhere and nowhere
I can't place you
I can't hold on to you at all
Yet none of that matters
Because you and I, my love
Breathe underneath
The same sky, sharing
Its dark blanket in the night
Cuddling together
In the warmth of half-dreams
In the heat of unfulfillable desires
As our emotions reawaken
Twinkling, flashing, beckoning
To those lonely stars in the night
In secret empathy with
The vastness of the sky
As fugitive feelings race by
I can barely perceive them
Out of the corner of my heart
When I await you every second
Impatient, excited, eager
And breathlessly in love.