Parallel Lives - Gates

We stand beside one another

Decided to never be close

We learn the language of lovers

A stranger to all that we know

In excess and example

How novel the one we regard

Though we long to resemble

We only become who we are

We stay entwined with each other

But couldn’t be further apart

We die denying the flutter

Of fervor we feel in our hearts

How uncommon the ember

Of memory burned and forgot

Left to always remember

That we couldn’t be what we’re not

And all we seem to be

Are parallel lives caught crossing