To know this the way I know
we can make music together
when separate,
to know this palpable presence
in the emptiness of silent rooms
& then embrace it for what it is,
and to know it isn’t just the singular you
but the plural when I consider
your survival is ours,
is to know I have not arrived
on this great big spinning rock
alone
and neither have you.
©Adrienne Veronese
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