Darkness sometimes falls right in the middle of an embrace

nick cave | the sweetest embrace

when a man grows older, his life becomes less dependent
on the rhythms of time and its seasons. darkness sometimes
falls right in the middle of an embrace
of two people at a window; or a summer comes to an end
during a love affair, while the love goes on
into autumn; or a man dies suddenly in the middle of speaking
and his words remain there on either side; or the same rain
falls on the one who says goodbye and goes
and on the one who says it and stays; or a single thought
wanders through cities and villages and many countries
in the head of a man who is travelling.

Yehuda Amichai