Beautiful

standing in the dark at the pond's edge

the day's warm rain an echo in the drain

the hylas wild for creation

and the toads dreaming in the marsh

i am the only man on the earth

solitary and stunned by the beauty of the night

the night is beautiful and i say so because she is

i am a poet and i tell the night she's beautiful and she is

the thousand-noted dark blue night with mars in her hair

so beautiful i say aloud because i am a poet

and she is beautiul and i am the only man on the earth

and i must