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The Depth and the Distance

THE DEPTH AND THE DISTANCE
        A story of Divorce

Because you would plumb only so deep					Final
Before returning, too soon, back to the top,
Breathing in air
And your preference to swim,
Skimming along the surface
Like a flat-edged rock.

While I continued, delving deeper down,
Beyond, where even, the Sun’s light
Stopped, broke rank and dispersed,
In a rout back to the top.
I continued, alone, in utter darkness

Descending into the depths.
Until, crashing here,
At the turgid, bed-rock bottom
Where only the limestone bones of the dead 
can be found
Like the mystical Elephant Graveyards.

You had gone for the distance
Where I settled for the depths
Both diametrically opposed
And at constant right-angles
to each other,
Thus, destined, to never 
See things the same way
And that we even met at all


John T Tansey

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