the distance between you and i
is the same as that distance
between myself and me

a gulf so imperceptible
two souls that intertwine
and yet a smokescreen intervenes

and my heart never to be touched
my inmost parts so liquid, so creamy
laying fallow, uninhabited

thinness, membrane thinner than
a butterfly wing, or maybe even
just one molecule thick

but never can be broken thru
never can be jumped across
to stand there with you