Sometimes I hear you stop abruptly
And change your direction
And start towards me
I hear it as a kind of rustling
My heart leaps up to greet you
To greet you in the air
To take you back home
To resume our long life together
Then I remember
The uncrossable dimensions of love
And I prepare myself
For the consequences of memory and longing
But memory with it's list of years
Turns gracefully aside
And longing kneels down like a calf
In the straw of amazement
And for the moment that it takes
To keep your death alive we are refreshed
In each other's timeless company