Near Distances — Strangers

Strangers...
(inspired by poetry)

I traced the letters from my heart's own core,
then the tide came in with its foam
to blot out the dear one's name
and fold it away with eternity.

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She said: What folly is his —
he wants eternity for what must die!
I am the whole of me, and that is but a part;
it will perish just as I perish.

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Leave the world to the grave,
for you are eternity in my verse,
and on the tablet of the heavens
your radiant name shall be written;
and it is true: when what remains
of the universe and the dusk is pierced through,
and men and grass pass away,
love shall give our lifetime life again.