a card falls to the carpet:
on the cover van Gogh's "Starry Night"
and inside words of adoration
in this decades old Valentine's Card
cutting his soul like a northern wind
as he recalls days long gone
when life stretched like a Norfolk sky
and all things seemed possible.
But he knows dreams should be
more powerful than memories
or you will drown in the past
so he wipes away sadness from his face
carefully placing the card back in place.