The frozen waves of this concrete sea
Bear me so softly away from you—
Separate, unchanging, this gentle
Broken line of dirt and rock,
Sand and stone and

How I wish we could be together!
How pointless it all seems,
This pain, this separation.
With each rise, each fall,
Each wave,

Each breath I take,
The distance grows,
You’re a little farther away,
And when will I find you
Again? Tell me—

Why does this
Frozen sea seem to move
So swiftly? How will you
Remember me, once I am
Gone? Or

Will you simply slip back into
Dreams of shattered nights
And twilight, waking
Memories of days you’ve
Yet to spend? If I come

Back to you with
Years between us, will you still
Be the same? Will I fall into
Your sweet electric embrace
The same old way? Or

Will I find that
You and I have become
Disjointed, awkward, and
In the end we’ll split apart
And go

Our own ways?
But that cannot be—
For there is no path that,
In the end, does not lead
Back to you.