Thinnest of All Threads "Elizabeth", wife of a Rethy Academy attendee

Who are you?
What links us?

The thinnest of all threads.

Your childhood is far, far away
A dream, another world
Another lifetime away.

I could never imagine it,
Never touch it.
Not even with all the love in the world.

You
are
a
mystery.

Can you know yourself?
How could you possibly know me?

Disjointed, you forgot every year
Leave each place far behind you
Embracing the new road with forgetful feet

Cling to the mundane
Discard the meaningful
Lest it come back to haunt you

I could never understand
or put together all the fallen beads
back into their proper sequence

on the thinnest of all threads.

The future is all you know
The past is a shadow
forgotten by the sun
you can't be reached in the present

Who knows what you think?
Feel?
Want?
Fear?

Do you?

Our love is real
Isn't it?

I know you that well-
(Don't I?)

'We' exist.

But we hang
every day
by

the thinnest of all threads.