Love Poem: Don'T You Know

Don'T You Know

Don’t you know?

Your heart is a stirring wandering minstrel
that plays softly soulful at my window 
it is the weeping voice of the cello
that begs his companion the moon to dwell

in sleepy stillness, embracing the night
yet a little bit longer with its glow,
while already dawn’s envious rays show
their eager smiles; and even this quiet

tireless old traveler that knows no grief,
Death, did suspend his course, and in delight
listened on the waves of silence, a brief

moment in time sparing us. Don’t you know
that the sweet sound of your gentle footsteps        
has etched its way into my heart and grows?