At Journey's End

A broad path...
the world repeating itself,
you and I, face to face,
goodbye drawing near.

How few are the people we truly hold close in this world!
I knew you would not return...
yet I wait still.

I feel your touch,
the way you linger in my soul—
the unbearable pulse of joy,
the scent of your skin.

Bound by uncertain law—
by that warmth deep in my chest
where you had left me...
how can I live without it?

I am terribly fragile, you know.
I don't even possess
the strength to love you.

I will not say goodbye...!
But if this should be my final feeling...
I will only say—
for all the time we were together,
I filled myself with you completely;
there was no hollow space left there...

Dear one, be well.