Anniversary

This time last year,
I was in Moscow -
trapped in a vast
snow globe -
and half way across
a continent from you.

How I mourned
the fact that we
couldn't be together!
Saw your face
in the frozen air
rising in front of me -
you were everywhere.

And now, another year
gone. I find myself
in a different glass bubble;
another world, another Russia -
once again cut off from you.

I just want you to know
that I’ve remembered,
even though you're
not around to remind me.

And, really, we're still
just John and Fanny,
pressing our ears
to the same wall,
trying to hear
each other's
heartbeats...

This is me, knocking
at the glass. Watching,
waiting... Just hoping
you'll knock back.