AGAIN

AGAIN

How is it
certain questions
have no answer

how is it
we
are
nothing like
the same

together again,
back to back,
face to
face

so different,
wholly other

no memory of ever
having done this before

and yet
     tell-tale signs, traces indeed
of previous encounters

you and I
         reaching out
to put to the test the very
idea of the hopeless

so divided, set apart
by distance in era,
disjunction
in
   space-time

and yet here
brought again to this
proximity to
question everything

infinite possibility
impossibly contained?