We Never Meet Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

We resist our desire to
Get near and go for a
A tight big hug
We maintain a distance
Between us
And that helps us go long
And pretty long
Not that we do not long for the other
We are intimately together always
We are even only in togetherness
But we keep a distance
And we never meet
This gap helps us a lot
In having our individual freedom
But we are always together
We understand that
For an intimate
Life long relationship
We need to have this gap
A safe distance between
We know each other so well
And this vital gap
Helps each other to accommodate
The other's varying moods
And emotional curves
The gap and the distance is important
As this not only takes us forward
But also others who depend on us
For their life journey
You can visualize the calamity
If we happen to meet
Or get closer a bit towards the other
Or even get farther a bit from the other
We are the rails
On which trains world over run
And if we meet, you will have no fun