Meeting and parting
These separate us:
Long mountain ranges,
a rainbow,
an invisible sun
endlessly falling
winter rain
the proud light
of my dark face.
These unite us:
The heartbeat of waves,
an endless telephone wire
which falls across continents
and oceans,
and, too frightened
to question the future,
a tender heart.
By Sri Lankan poet R. Cheran
(translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom)