One Another

We met in Spain after high school

Fellow travelers on an unknown road

Walking and talking together

Like old friends

Learning about one another

Childhood, family, friends

Aspirations and faults

Making love in hostels

Exploring our bodies and desires

Pleasing one another

Backpacking across Europe

Learning food and culture

Discovering wine and breads

Turning strangers into friends

Laughing with one another

The summer ended too soon

Train embarking at dawn

Falling together in desperation

Licking, biting, sucking

Needing one another

The station crowded and hot

Being shoved along

Finding our train, our taxi

Our flight together to New York

Leaving one another

Traveling on to Vermont

He to California

Opposite coasts and lives

Time passes sadly, slowly

Missing one another

The phone calls dwindled

The emails stopped coming

She wept at her loss and his

The pain immense and unending

Forgetting one another

Listening to insipid professors

Drone on as she daydreamed

Hearing someone call her name

A voice familiar across the quad

Running to one another

Clutching one another

Kissing one another

Whispering to one another

Promising one another

To never live one without the other