I Sat With An Old Woman

I sat with an old woman
     who spoke a foreign language.

We had waited all summer to sit together.
     the summer of June, July and January.

She told me her father haunted her
     though he died 40 years before.

She told me she played Beethoven
     but not as well as I do.

I sat with an old woman
     who spoke a foreign language.

I've waited all summer to learn it.
     like a child at the age of two.