To understand the meaning of this poem, one would have to understand a very closely related poem that was written nearly a month ago, called "Visions of the Moonlight". While both are to some degree love poems, as much so as anything might ever be, because they were directly written about some sort of emotion of that nature, they are very different in their actual intent.
Visions of the Moonlight
The moonlight peers softly into your face.
It weens my eyes and softens my soul.
Time is lost in your face
And words are lost just so.
There is a soft radiance,
And all I can see are your eyes.
They glow ever so softly to me,
As if I can see an inner light.
This shading is strange and ever so awful,
For in this darkness I can close my face,
Bury myself in the pale vision,
Born of the moonlight and lost to time.
To some extent, Visions of the Moonlight was a very simple lovesong, to somebody who continues to change me and is a good friend. An expression of emotion in a world where I don't feel secure in expressing it in any other way, as God alone knows what might happen if I did.
In contrast, Lost in the Night was a pained reflection on love, and in my personal case, to feel such a deep emotion as I have never felt, and to not recognize it in return. Perhaps it is there, or could be, but for the life of me, I don't have the self-confidence to look for it.
