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The Gulf
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| Poems ~ The Gulf written by Katherine Mansfield |
| 1923. |
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.
| This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. |
