This is just to say I've gone to bed

This is just to say I've gone to bed
while he is upon some task. The television
is mumbling something and a light flickers
over the window. This is just to say

I can't forget her. The curvature of eyes
and the swollen clouds, the subtle movement
of golden strands in a breeze. This is just
to say I've had a brief dream about her

in the morning hours, mourned her hourly
as a Sundial during a storm. It is so cold
without you here. He's working poetry

into the open spaces, off the walls
are his fair syllables. This is just to
say that justice is never quite balanced.