Poems (Mansfield)/The Gulf
THE GULF
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 nameAnd 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. 1911.