Is Now
A Thin Veil
by David R. Varg (7-20-02)
...just couldn't look her way!
I had to plod on; let her be!
My eyes, t'wards her, di'nt stray!
Her life was something I could not
just, as it was, accept!
Such pain, her presence, to me brought!
So, onward, I just crept;
and tried to focus on each day!
The Now's what I did clutch!
A gaze t'wards her; my heart said, "Hey!
Look elsewhere! ...don't, that touch!"
But now, permission I've received
to fully at her, stare!
Where once, if seen--I only grieved!
A fresh response is there!
It's like the curtain's rebuilt, new!
No more a solid wall!
It's present but...can now reach through!
And sense my dear friend Col!
What was between us: this huge mass,
which naught could penetrate!
Our contact thus, t'was none alas!
The barrier...too great!
That Wall so Great!--of Chinese lore;
seemed petty when compared.
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'Twas hopeless, I declared!
And due to this, we could not meet!
The cleave between, too wide!
To reach across, a hopeless feat;
all closeness, hence had died!
But now the veil which us, divides
is thin just like a breath!
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behind the cloak of death.
Recall, I do, she penned a note;
expressed her thoughts, sincere!
"I wish we'd met'n three years," she wrote.
Well, seems that state is here!
