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SO CLOSE YET SO FAR

Looking outside the window, I saw two tracks that seemed to go on forever They looked at one another with distant familiarity Yet that feeling of uncanny knowingness struck their hearts They went on and on parallel to one another Staring at each other day and night A growing sense of knowing each other beckoned them close And they knew eventually, that all would be right Going on playfully with childlike frivolty They arched, they bent, they fell, they rose Yet they knew in their lonely hearts That their story would make a lovely prose They woke up one morning realizing they had diverged Looking far across the horizon but to no avail They had been separated, caught unaware And it was just sadness that prevailed Hope is what kept them going That one fine day they would reunite That one day they would meet and rejoice And all would still eventually be right. They looked everyday at the setting sun with hope depreciating At not being next to one another once