Dumb intimacy

In your presence I am silent

And in my presence you are.

Between us silence is comfortable.

Is not it itself a proof

That we are bound by affinity.

I am a man and you, a woman.

Is not that itself a proof

That it is more than an affinity.

Let us not reveal what it means,

To spare us that embarrassment.

Let us be dumbly intimate.

That intimacy is more reminding;

That silence is more sounding.

11.02.2008