Looking Back

© Charles E. Corry 1992


 

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Perhaps I see you most clearly

Through the red mist of rage.

For at other times, in other ways, my vision

Is clouded by the veil of your presence and touch.

 

The tall, angular shape of you

Creates a cloud that recognizes not

The differences and the distances

Between us, wider now than ever.

 

It seems that simple words

Will not, can not, bridge the gap

That rents the fabric of our being

And pushes us ever further apart.

 

What hand can I reach out

Across the chasm of our determination.

The set stubbornness of two

Strong, proud people.

 

Each unwilling, somehow unable

To step into the other's world.

View from the other's eyes

Their opposite visions of reality.

 

Reality shaped by events

Neither has had control of.

Hardened by, forced by currents

That tear them away from each other.

 

Hardly stopping to think that

Once we loved, and now

Both our worlds are darker places

In our loneliness.


 

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