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A Gulf of silence separates us from each other. | |||
I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other. | |||
I cannot see you or hear you, yet know that you are there. | |||
Often I call you by your childish name | |||
And pretend that the echo to my crying is your voice. | |||
How can we bridge the gulf? Never by speech or touch. | |||
Once I thought we might fill it quite up with tears. | |||
Now I want to shatter it with our laughter. | |||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
Revision as of 08:28, 13 February 2008
| Poems ~ 'The Gulf' written by Katherine Mansfield |
| 1923. | Link to further information |
A Gulf of silence separates us from each other.
I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other.
I cannot see you or hear you, yet know that you are there.
Often I call you by your childish name
And pretend that the echo to my crying is your voice.
How can we bridge the gulf? Never by speech or touch.
Once I thought we might fill it quite up with tears.
Now I want to shatter it with our laughter.
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