He's writing about someone he loved who seems to have permanently left. He wonders where she's gone, and it's obvious he has no idea given all the locales that are poetically imagined. A hint of why she left is given in the last verse "I don't want to own the key to some ghostly mansion", possibly a lack of extending commitment to the relationship on the writer's part?
He's writing about someone he loved who seems to have permanently left. He wonders where she's gone, and it's obvious he has no idea given all the locales that are poetically imagined. A hint of why she left is given in the last verse "I don't want to own the key to some ghostly mansion", possibly a lack of extending commitment to the relationship on the writer's part?