My wife takes my face between her hands,
weeps for my weeping.
We wonder if there is a heaven;
I think not: not elsewhere, here if anywhere;
not where the angels live, not a place at all,
but what they guard: each of us the locus
and the substance of love.
The unbroken cannot be cherished, only feared or adored.
We must be able to perish.
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