devoted you have my serene attention
turning simple opposites into a continuum
conversation into song into enchantments
delicate interwoven threads and pensive mazes
love becomes so alive in our momentary cadences
heights of empathy echoing in the high halls
irresistibly our families begin dancing
until inebriate with contentment we lay where we are
when we part the anguish is mortal but brief
our lives our solitudes firm alma maters we return
your work my work our friends
gather us back into ourselves
then when we are newly whole
we meet and begin again