The Confines
Lovers
so intimate...
As close, perhaps
as two people can be
Yet strangers
Isolated.
Separate
Memories, thoughts, feelings,
perceptions, dreams, doubts
...inexorably private
Confined
In the eternal solitude
Of separate journeys
and destinations.
(...similar paths,
on occasion)
But unable to share
who we truly are
Except, perhaps,
through the desire
To help one another
fulfill those private aspirations
(whatever they may be)
As lovers
Or strangers...
