Of Mergers and Apartness

So near, so far
So there, yet here, too

My chaos
Your calm
Your madness
My peace

Churn in a whirlpool of silence

Around and around
Ending where it began
Beginning where it just about ended

So us
So me and you again

So indistinguishably yours
So painfully othered

Merging in a striking blur of apartness
Joining in limb and soul

So near, so far
So there, yet here, too

Disembodied, yet part of you
Me, yet you, too.