Only for now. Both feel an impulse and are surprised! An urge to gently hold a hand or wrap an arm around the shoulder to walk each other home. One step at a time. As if they are a toddler, picking up something interesting from the ground while strolling with a guardian! In that instant, a twisted route through mysteries and toward where they both must travel begins. The journey begins without a grand plan, or the warmth of a quilt stitched with great hopes and dreams. It starts.
For an exceptionally lucky few, this hitch turns out to be life-long shared coasting along a shore-line while both collect pearls of memories. Until it is interrupted unavoidably, one of the companions would run out of the allotted time when breath becomes air. There is no escaping of this allotment, and it almost always ends abruptly for anyone!
The other traveler reconstructs the course to continue; it’s been in their prayers ever since the bonds of building a nest in each other’s soul begun. That the sudden end, however unexpected, is mere transience. They made peace with that awareness. But the resonance of despair is relentless and only dampened from a faint hope, unspoken, snuggled in the heart like a thin spider thread. The hope is made in silence but with a persistent plea to the unseen: let each other meet again on the other end of the horizon – make the rendezvous last a little longer than what was only at crossroads during their shared journey. Their particular term would transition into another realm – “the conservation of energy” scientists named it such. They would settle into their HOME – the home nestled what they had always imagined as their destination. For now, all parting is only transitory, so they hope.