They Met
Back to back
They met, page to page
each other’s opposites
each other’s continuation
life’s long story
on separate pages
They met, face to face
so intimate and reveling
and mixed and confusing
disordered and untimed
as the world all at once
They met, age to age
at a turn, one was gone
and another was on
what had passed
lived along between lines
It happened again
for as long as the story
kept moving along
on the pages of words
in my life
Back to back
side by side
following close
one another
to the end
–
Issa