Waiting For A Train...For 'M' Comments

My most recent poem: Waiting for a Train (for M) is actually based on a story told to me by a girl who use to catch trains in the city of Moscow. When I composed it I was also reading at the time Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and listening to Tchaikovsky. The poem has two settings: the loneliness of the moment and the sullen beauty of the protagonist; and the author who is trying to understand the depths of her and what makes her tick. The last lines portray his loneliness, in not understanding this muse as well as his spiritual malaise, as he himself crosses the street and in doing so crosses himself. Being that this poem is set in Russia, when can only assume that he too is a Russian Orthodox, but as the poem surmises, a fallen one who puts more luck into a sign of the cross, rather than faith, for his faith questions God. 'M' for whom the poem is for is actually a pseudonym based on three people. One is Kay Morrison, a muse of Robert Frost, and the other 'M' is a muse of the spiritual writer Thomas Merton, or maybe it stands just for a muse, in whom, like Hamlet said of Ophelia, , 'Be all my sins remembered.' rjs