Chances Are

"Maybe in some parallel universe we found each other.....we are meant to run toward one another....chances are, I'll never know." Erin Van Vuren

Darkness lingers

Before the dawn

Of awareness and revelation.

I stretch out my hand

And touch the air.

I can feel it:

The curious vibration

Of a parallel universe.

*

From the other world

You step in, a seeming

Vision but not quite reality.

Yet, when my eyes

Reach yours,

I know the secret:

You are trespassing

Into my orb of time.

*

For endless moments

All thought is suspended,

I am transfixed

By your gaze.

Longing suddenly encompasses -

I desire it all.

Still, I know you are mine for

A mere macrocosm in time.

*

Time's vibration

Crescendos, settles, and flatlines.

You know it, you feel it, too:

Here, wrapped within

Our private cosmos

We love enduringly and

Know each other to the depths

Of our souls.

*

But of a sudden,

A celestial flash of light,

The earth shudders anew.

You are gone and

My heartbeat falters.

Like grains of sand

Through splayed fingers,

Our time together has vanished.

*

Whispers, echoes –

Nothing more –

Remain in the dawn's dim light.

The brief eclipse

Of love so divinely felt

Mere moments ago

Disperses in the morning air.

You aren't even a memory.

*

Parallel universes and

Star crossed lovers?

Still, we can't recall

Each other’s visage,

Cannot search high and low

Throughout the universes to find

The ultimate destination:

Indescribable, unfathomable love.

*

Thus, a moment is suspended

In the span of our lives,

The rarest opportunity

Evaporates swiftly

Much like the morning dew.

We are none the wiser

Nor will we ever know

The gift of love we missed.