The Impossible
It must have been about a year
later, after I put down the phone
that night.
It wasn't the anger
or the agony of the thing.
I could have carried that as you did.
It was the pity in your voice
that bit my pride. I could not hold on that
for you, for any longer.
But it was about a year
later, in another country
in a different continent, driving the car
and I saw you driving a car,
coming out of a side-road, a lane
surrounded by bushes, pausing
and peering to left and to right
and right again, as I was approaching
and passing, driving towards the roundabout
and on, knowing it wasn't you,
it couldn't have been you, and yet still, now,
I'm driven as surely as the cycle
of Bruckner's patient symphonies,
each another movement of itself, to go back,
to recollect that moment, to remember
you, that parting, the words,
the bitterness and love,
back beyond all that is here,
the impossible, unanswered.
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