Silence deepens the vague ambitions
of you and me and a special him:
we move from one packed moment
to another : unpacking, our changed
minds malinger too long
over lost crossroads and
turns mistaken.
We were not deceived:
We knew all the time that, alone
we could have grappled the very
handles of the universe; together,
we only procrastinated.
Let us have the gentleness of distance then,
let us learn to be lonely, together.
Let us range ourselves in so
parallel a position that like
the spans of a great steel bridge
we shall always see each other aloft—
forever.