Wake Up Call

My lover's voice in the distance
Carried on moonlight rays
Exhorting me to rise
I claw through the earth
Break through the ice-encrusted surface
Cross my corner of consecrated ground
Ignore the granite sculpture marking the general population
Saints and angels that will have nothing to do with me
I reach the edge of the forest
Make my way through the ancient trees to the pond
My lover's face floats within
Her eyes pools of darkness
Her complexion pale and gleaming as the moon above
Still a knockout after all these years...