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Lying apart now,each in a separate bed |
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He with a book keeping the light on late |
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She like a girl dreaming of childhood |
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All men elsewhere - it is as if they wait Some new event: |
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The book he holds unread |
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Her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead |
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Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion |
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How cool they lie.They hardly ever touch |
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Or if they do, it is like a confession |
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Of having little feeling - or too much |
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Chastity faces them a destination |
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For which their whole lives were a preparation |
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Strangely apart, yet strangely close together |
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Silence between them like a thread to hold |
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And not wind in. And time itself's a feather,Touching them gently |
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Do they know they're old |
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These two who are my father and my mother |
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Whose fire from which I came,has now grown cold? |