We Two, Still In This Together Poem by RIC BASTASA

we sleep too early
we must be getting old

then we wake up at 2 o'clock
and we are not surprised

we feel the need to talk
about almost anything

we feel thirsty and we go to the kitchen
we are the only people here

taking emotions till dawn
no one hears us in this isolation

we are fenced with so much privacy
we lose time

we have forgotten to synchronize with the world now
when they are asleep here we are waking up to take our meals

we shun television
we go for sitting together and remembering

we must be old, and even older than we think
we do not talk about love

we support each other's need to be with the other
we face each other and once again discern

about how lonely could this world be
if we parted ways and live our lives independently

we exchange feelings like gifts
and always excited what we can find

hidden beneath our hearts
opened by the careful hands of our minds...