Lovestruck Romeo

If WB Yeats
Wrote songs for Dire Straits
He probably wouldn't write this…

I called from beneath her window;
from the pavement before her door.
In her garden I felt the wind blow
autumnal and chilly, but more:

it carried her voice away, as
she called from her bedroom high.
It carried her pleas to stay as
though they were but a sigh...

And though I could see her speaking
and her anguish was plain to see,
the sound of the ash tree's creaking
hid all other sounds from me.

So all of her words she sent me
and all of my heartfelt cries
were dust. 'Twas as though she meant me
to leave -as a dry leaf flies.

Roy