The Continuing Embrace

Egon Schiele, Die Umarmung, Österreichische Gallery, Vienna, 1917

It can’t be much more than it was.

It can’t be much less than it wasn’t.

whatever, we love each other still.

notwithstanding all our trysts and transgressions

condemned to live

with the conflicts and the treasons

that are part of life, at the same time as

we grasp for a way to move beyond them

knowing that, however difficult, this is our destiny

as we embrace yet again.

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