Parallel

Parallel lives will never meet.

They walk on a different street

Though both are equally fleet.

Perhaps at the vanishing point

They will end, a dovetail joint,

That nothing can pull apart,

Not a hawk, nor a work of art,

For there’s no change of mind

Can allow thoughts to unbind.

All, futile conjecture.

(Is the math of parallels pure?)

Lives do cross, were meant to,

But in sum they are so few.

So many hearts do not reach,

Not even trying, each to each.

Rolling, rolling like train wheels,

None knowing what others feel,

Each of us made of flesh and steel.